Lowland East Cushitic languages

Lowland East Cushitic
Geographic
distribution		Horn of Africa
Linguistic classificationAfroasiatic
Subdivisions
  • Saho–Afar
  • Oromoid
  • (Western) Omo–Tana
  • Somali
  • ? Dahalo
  • ? Rift
  • ? Ongota
  • ? Yaaku
  • ? Dullay
  • ? Boon
Language codes
Glottologlowl1267

The Lowland East Cushitic languages are a branch of Cushitic languages spoken on the Horn of Africa. There are around 25 languages in the branch still spoken. The most spoken are the Oromo and Somali languages.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Richard Hayward, "Afroasiatic", in Heine & Nurse, 2000, African Languages
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