Highland East Cushitic languages

Highland East Cushitic
Sidamic
Geographic
distribution:
Ethiopia
Linguistic classification:

Afro-Asiatic

Subdivisions:
Glottolog: high1285[1]

Highland East Cushitic, or Sidamic, 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 and considered dubious.

The languages are:

Except for Burji, they are closely related. Hadiyya and Libido are especially close, as are Kambaata and Alaba. The most populous language is Sidamo, with close to two million speakers.

Notes

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Highland East Cushitic". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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