Lowland East Cushitic languages

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Lowland East Cushitic languages are a branch of the Cushitic family of Afroasiatic languages spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, including widely used tongues such as Somali and Oromo.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic language subgroup
language branch
arealFeature contact with Ethiosemitic languages
contact with Nilo-Saharan languages
continent Africa
hasMajorLanguage Afar language
Oromo language
linked to: Oromo

Saho language
Somali language
linked to: Somali
hasMember Afar language
Alaba language
Arbore language
Baiso language
linked to: Bayso language

Bayso language
Boni language
Burji language
Dirasha language
Elmolo language
Gawwada language
Hadiyya language
Kambaata language
Konso language
linked to: Sidamo language

Oromo language
linked to: Oromo

Qimant language
Rendille language
Saho language
Sidamo language
Somali language
linked to: Somali
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
partOf Afroasiatic languages
Afroasiatic languages
Cushitic languages
linked to: Cushitic
region Horn of Africa
spokenBy Afar people
Oromo people
Somali people
spokenIn Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Somalia
subgroupOf Cushitic languages
typologicalFeature case marking on nouns
grammatical gender
predominantly SOV word order
rich consonant inventory
vowel length contrast
writingSystemUsedByMembers Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Geʽez script
Latin script

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Northern Somali languageSubbranch Lowland East Cushitic languages
Qafar subfamilyOf Lowland East Cushitic peoples
linked to: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Saho language linguisticBranch Lowland East Cushitic
subject linked to: ssy
linked to: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Arsi dialect branch Lowland East Cushitic languages
Guji dialect subbranch Lowland East Cushitic languages
West Central Oromo languageSubbranch Lowland East Cushitic languages
Southern Oromo subBranch Lowland East Cushitic languages
Orma people languageBranch Lowland East Cushitic
linked to: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Arbore subbranch Lowland East Cushitic
linked to: Lowland East Cushitic languages
Highland East Cushitic neighboringLanguageGroups Lowland East Cushitic
linked to: Lowland East Cushitic languages
North Cushitic hasNeighboringLanguageBranch Lowland East Cushitic
linked to: Lowland East Cushitic languages