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Hamitic languages
Hamitic languages 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. See Afroasiatic languages . ... Read more
artificial languages
artificial languages languages that are invented by one or more human beings as opposed to languages that develop naturally among peoples. Examples of artificial languages are Volapük, Esperanto , and Ido . See international language . ... Read more
Gaelic
Gaelic , or Goidelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Goidelic
Goidelic , or Gaelic, group of languages belonging to the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages ; Irish language . ... Read more
Afroasiatic languages
Afroasiatic languages , formerly Hamito-Semitic languages , family of languages spoken by more than 250 million people in N Africa; much of the Sahara; parts of E, central, and W Africa; and W Asia (especially the Arabian peninsula, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel). Since four of the Afr... Read more
Iranian languages
Iranian languages group of languages belonging to the Indo-Iranian family of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
universal language
universal language a language intended to further communication and goodwill among peoples speaking different languages without necessarily replacing their native tongues. See international language . ... Read more
Assamese
Assamese , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Gujarati
Gujarati , language belonging to the Indic group of the Indo-Iranian subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Indo-Iranian languages. ... Read more
Cornish
Cornish language belonging to the Brythonic group of the Celtic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Celtic languages . Bibliography: See P. B. Ellis, The Cornish Language and Its Literature (1974). ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Cushitic languages"

Cushitic
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Cushitic , group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family of languages. See Afroasiatic languages .
Hamitic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Hamitic languages 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...
Afroasiatic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Semitic languages , family of languages spoken by more than 250 million...are also respectively the languages of Islam, Judaism, and...the Christian faith, the language family reaches many millions...Egyptian, Semtic, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic. According to one theory, the ...
Afar
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...be derived from the Ankala tribe, which is centered on the Buri Peninsula. They speak an eastern Cushitic language, and remnants of Cushitic animistic cults persist in contemporary Afar culture. They numbered about 143,000 in Djibouti in...
Beja
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa ...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...1990s TaBedawie was an unwritten language, and therefore it has no literature...
Tanzania
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...peope speak Bantu languages. There are approximately...speak a Nilotic language; the Sandawe speak a language akin to Khoikhoi; and the Iraqw speak a Cushitic language. The inhabitants...republic's official languages; Arabic is also...
Oromo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement ...century. Linguistic Affiliation. The Oromo language (Afaan Oromo) is a Cushitic language (Afar-Saho, Beja, Sidama, Somali), a branch of the Afro-Asiatic or Hamito-Semitic language family. There are minor variations in usage...
Somalia
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...The Somali people share a common language, Somali, and most are Muslims...Somalis speak Somali, the official language. In the Afro-Asiatic family of languages, Somali is an Eastern Cushitic language. Somali did not become a written...
Falasha
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Linguistic Affiliation. The Falasha speak the Semitic languages of the majority population of their areas: Amharic and...up to the mid-nineteenth century, they spoke Agew, a Cushitic language of the original inhabitants of the Ethiopian plateau, before...
Djibouti
Encyclopedia entry from: Countries and Their Cultures ...populations that speak related languages, adhere to Islam, and...Affiliation. The main indigenous languages are Afar and Issa-Somali...of which belong to the Cushitic language group. The official national languages are French, which is used...

Dictionary entries related to "Cushitic languages"

Somali
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...people of Somalia. ∎  the Cushitic language that is the official language of Somalia, also spoken in Djibouti and parts...relating to Somalia, the Somalis, or their language. DERIVATIVES: So·ma·li...
Afar
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...r / • n. 1. ( pl. same or A·fars ) a member of a people living in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. 2. the Cushitic language of this people. • adj. of or relating to this people or their language.
Hamitic
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Hamitic of or denoting a hypothetical language family formerly proposed to comprise Berber, ancient Egyptian, the Cushitic languages, and the Chadic languages. These are now recognized as independent branches of the Afro-Asiatic family.

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Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea
Magazine article from: African Studies Review; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...nine ethnic groups, speaking nine different languages. The nine languages can be grouped into three major language families: the Nilotic, the Cushitic, and the Afro-Semitic. The Nilotic languages in Eritrea are Nara and Kunama. The Nara...
Global trends in language *.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...reconstructed for human language. He claims that it...and that most of the languages that are not currently...Amharic, a Semitic language, was once VSO but...via contact with SOV Cushitic languages of Ethiopia. The idea...
Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...bibliography of studies of Semitic languages in general and the specific languages investigated in this volume...organized alphabetically by language. The scope of the study...Lipinski places the Semitic languages in the broad class of Afro...languages, alongside Egyptian, Cushitic, ...
Das K'abeena. Deskriptive Grammatik einer Hochlandostkuschitischen Sprache
Magazine article from: Studies in African Linguistics; 10/1/2005; ; 675 words ; ...Hochlandostkuschilischen Sprache. (Cushitic Language Studies, vol...00. The Highland East Cushitic language K'abeena is described...1-14], situates the language, spoken in Wolkite, 160...and relates it to other Cushitic languages. Chapter 2, "Phonologie...
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Magazine article from: Studies in African Linguistics; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Nubian (Bell), language shift from Nubian...orthography of the Ajang Languages (el-Dar), computational...Dictionary of the Agaw Languages. (Cushitic Language Studies, volume 24...related Agaw branch of Cushitic. The volume starts...
Modern Rapanui adaptation of Spanish elements (1).
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Old Rapanui. (6) Other languages such as Spanish and Tahitian...but it is not a "mixed language" in the sense that the grammatical...systems of two or more separate languages have interpenetrated each...Tanzania, is considered a mixed language. It is a Cushitic language that retains ...
Obituary: Professor B. W. Andrzejewski
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/6/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...Lecturer, Reader in Cushitic Languages School of...80, Professor of Cushitic Languages and Literature...in the world on the languages and oral literature...studying and analysing language in its actual, living...previously unwritten Somali language. This work began...and ...
The Enigma of the Hebrew Verbal System.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...Semitic is not a primeval language but is itself a development...of Egyptian, Berber, and Cushitic--all of them known to...had also worked on several Cushitic languages. The introduction to Brockelmann...of Egyptian, Berber, and Cushitic to Semitic, but he felt...
Incorporation: a comparison between Iraqw and Dutch. * (Short Note).
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 5/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...phenomena in two unrelated languages: object-verb constructions in Iraqw, a Cushitic language spoken in Tanzania...described for the native languages of the Americas. In...incorporation in these and other languages can be found in Mithun...
STATE DEPARTMENT ISSUES BACKGROUND NOTE ON ETHIOPIA
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 12/1/2006; 700+ words ; ...remainder indigenous beliefs. Languages: Amharic (official...people speak a Semitic or Cushitic language. The Oromo, Amhara, and...Amharic is the official language and was the language of primary school instruction...replaced in many areas by local languages such as Oromifa and ...