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Cushitic
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cushitic , group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family of languages. See Afroasiatic languages .
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Hamitic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, a now-abandoned system of classification for languages of N Africa and SW Asia. The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages...
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Afroasiatic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...languages , family of languages spoken by more than 250...also respectively the languages of Islam, Judaism...Egyptian, Semtic, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic...According to one theory, the languages of the Afroasiatic family...
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Iraqw
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...their language as "Southern Cushitic." Whiteley (1958), however...finding no connection with the Cushitic languages of Ethiopia. He claims that...those of Hamitic and Semitic languages. History and Cultural Relations...
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Eritrea
Encyclopedia entry from: World Press Encyclopedia
...Tigre and Kunama, Tigrinya other Cushitic languages Literacy rate: 25.0% Area: 121...Arabic and Afar. The three major languages are English, Tigrinya, and Arabic. While all the languages are used in elementary school, English...
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Djibouti
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies
...Ethiopians, and Italians. Both the Somali and the Afar are Muslim groups and speak related Cushitic languages. French and Arabic are the official languages. There is an Arab minority population that numbers 12,000 and is mostly people of Yemeni...
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Farah, Nuruddin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Somalia at the time. The Somali tongue, part of the Cushitic family of languages spoken in the Horn of Africa, was not codified...for example, was to end the reliance on colonial languages in Somalia's educational system, and he ordered...
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Somalis
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Af-Soomaali, belongs to the East Cushitic Branch of Afroasiatic languages. It is closely related to languages of some of the neighboring peoples...the Rendille, and the Boni. These languages are sometimes referred to as the...
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Beja
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...jewelry and large nose rings. The dominant Beja language in Sudan is the TaBedawie, which is a Cushitic language influenced by Semitic languages such as Tigre and Arabic. Until the early 1990s TaBedawie was an unwritten language, and therefore...
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Eritreans
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Northern Cushitic Beja; Eastern Cushitic Afar and Saho; Central Cushitic Bilen Agew; Chari-Nile, Kunama...language groups. Native Eritrean languages include Tigrinya, Tigre, Northern Cushitic Beja, Eastern Cushitic Afar and...
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