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[citation needed] Blench notes that Omotic shares honey-related vocabulary with Cushitic but not cattle-related vocabulary, suggesting that the split occurred before the advent of pastoralism. [7] A few scholars have raised doubts that the Omotic languages are part of the Afroasiatic language family at all, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and Theil (2006) proposes ...
Kambaata is a Highland East Cushitic language, part of the larger Afro-Asiatic family and spoken by the Kambaata people.Closely related varieties are Xambaaro (T'ambaaro, Timbaaro), Alaba, and Qabeena (K'abeena), [3] of which the latter two are sometimes divided as a separate Alaba language.
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The language of inter‐ethnic communication is Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia. Kambatas have Amharic names, and some even speak Amharic as their first language. These days, traditional Kambata names are hardly given to children. English is the only spoken foreign language and is the language of teaching in secondary schools.
The Aari people suffered considerable pressures to assimilate after the conquest of the Omo River region by the Ethiopian Empire in the late 1800s, which resulted in the widespread adoption of the Amharic language there. Nevertheless, the Aari language survived; today, many Aari are also fluent in Amharic.
With more than 41.7 million speakers [13] making up 33.8% of the total Ethiopian population, [14] Oromo has the largest number of native speakers in Ethiopia, and ranks as the second most widely spoken language in Ethiopia by total number of speakers (including second-language speakers) following Amharic. [15]
[6] [7] Locals or natives of Harar refer to their language as Gēy Sinan or Gēy Ritma ' language of the City ' (Gēy is the word for how Harari speakers refer to the city of Harar, whose name is an exonym). [8] According to Wolf Leslau, Sidama is the substratum language of Harari and influenced the vocabulary greatly. [9]
Of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, 91 are living and 1 is extinct. 41 of the living languages are institutional, 14 are developing, 18 are vigorous, 8 are in danger of extinction, and 5 are near extinction. [5] According to data from 2021 from Ethnologue, [6] the largest first languages are: Oromo speakers numbering more than 36 million ...