Lowland East Cushitic is a group of roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives are Oromo and Somali .
5-598: Lowland East Cushitic classification from Tosco (2020:297): Highland East Cushitic is a coordinate (sister) branch with Lowland East Cushitic in Tosco's (2020) classification. "Core" East Cushitic classification from Bender (2020 [2008]: 91). Saho–Afar is excluded, making it equivalent to Tosco's Southern Lowland East Cushitic, and Yaaku is moved into Western Omo–Tana ("Arboroid"): Highland East Cushitic and Afar–Saho are coordinate (sister) branches with Lowland East Cushitic, together forming East Cushitic. Lowland East Cushitic
10-673: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Highland East Cushitic languages Highland East Cushitic or Burji-Sidamo is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in south-central Ethiopia . They are often grouped with Lowland East Cushitic , Dullay , and Yaaku as East Cushitic , but that group is not well defined. The most populous language is Sidama , with close to two million speakers. The languages are: The four to six Sidamoid languages are all closely related. Hadiyya and Libido are especially close, as are Kambaata and Alaba. Their relationship with Burji
15-843: Is often grouped with Highland East Cushitic (the Sidamic languages), Dullay , and Yaaku as "East Cushitic", but that group is not well defined and considered dubious. The most spoken Lowland East Cushitic language is Oromo , with about 35 million speakers in Ethiopia and Kenya . The Konsoid dialect cluster is closely related to Oromo. Other prominent languages include Somali (spoken by ethnic Somalis in Somalia , Somaliland , Ethiopia, Djibouti , and Kenya) with about 30 million speakers, and Afar (in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti) with about 1.5 million. Robert Hetzron has suggested that
20-477: The Rift languages ("South Cushitic") are a part of Lowland East Cushitic, and Kießling & Mous (2003) have suggested more specifically that they be linked to a Southern Lowland branch, together with Oromo, Somali, and Yaaku – Dullay . The vocabulary of the mixed register of Mbugu (Ma'a) may also be East Cushitic (Tosco 2002), though the grammatical basis and the other register are Bantu. Unclassified within
25-496: The Lowland languages are Girirra and perhaps the endangered Boon language. Savà and Tosco (2003) believe Ongota is an East Cushitic language with a Nilo-Saharan substratum —that is, that Ongota speakers shifted to East Cushitic from an earlier Nilo-Saharan language, traces of which still remain. However, Fleming (2006) considers it to be an independent branch of Afroasiatic. This Afroasiatic languages -related article
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