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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Cushitic languages
		The Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, and (sometimes) Chadic languages were formerly classified as Hamitic languages.
		Their language is of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family.
		February 1922; Lecturer, Reader in Cushitic Languages School of Oriental and African Studies 1952-80, Professor of Cushitic Languages and Literature 1980-82; married...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Cushitic+languages (1046 words)

	HEC refs
		The diachronic derivation of the verb in northern Highland East Cushitic.
		The Northern Highland East Cushitic Verb in an Areal Perspective.
		A note on the relative chronology of the Cushitic verb and genetic classification of the Cushitic languages.
	www.msu.edu /~hudson/HECrefs.htm (2490 words)

	Ethiopian Languages - Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan
		The Ethiopian languages are divided into four major language groups.These are Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharan.
		The Cushitic languages are mostly spoken in central, southern and eastern Ethiopia (mainly in Afar, Oromia and Somali regions).
		The Cushitic languages use the Roman alphabet and Ge'ez script.
	www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/language.htm (319 words)

	Ethiopia Cushitic Language Groups
		Three other Lowland East Cushitic groups--the Somali, Afar, and Saho--share a pastoral tradition (although some sections of each group have been cultivators for some time), commitments of varying intensity to Islam, and social structures composed of autonomous units defined as descent groups.
		The speakers of the Highland East Cushitic languages (sometimes called the Sidamo languages after a version of the name of their largest component) numbered more than 2 million in 1970.
		There are six groups of Central Cushitic (Agew) speakers, five of which live in the central highlands surrounded by Amhara.
	www.country-studies.com /ethiopia/cushitic-language-groups.html (1609 words)

	Kenya’s People - the Cushites - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Of Kenya's three major migrant ethno-linguistic groups, the first to arrive were the Cushites, the earliest of which are believed to have entered north and northeastern Kenya from southern Ethiopia sometime between the second and first millennium BC.
		The vast majority of Kenyan Cushites are from the Eastern branch, with only a few pockets of numerically tiny Southern Cushites surviving, mainly near the coast.
		Also called Dahaloan-speakers, the continued existence of the Southern Cushites as separate and independent Kenya peoples is highly unlikely, as the eastern border of Kenya with Somalia has become little more than a reflection of Somalia's internal conflicts, with heavily-armed raiders, bandits and massacres prevalent throughout the 1990s.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/contexts/cushites.htm (709 words)

	Racial Type of Somalis - Forums powered by Reason and Principle
		Because of recent studies of Cushitic people, anthropologists have had to discard some of their prior theories on the origin and progression of the human race.
		The Cushitic languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic languages that are spoken in Northern and Eastern Africa.
		The Cushitic languages and cultures are mainly found in the Somalis and the Oromos, one of the two main groups inhabiting Ethiopia.44, 45, 46.
	www.libertyforum.org /showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_culture&Number=294966687&page=&view=&sb=&o=&part=1&vc=1&t=0 (4278 words)

	Cushitic Branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
		Cushitic people, who live around the Horn region of Africa, a peninsula in East Africa, and today comprise the Somali, Afar, Oromo and several other tribes, are thought to be the offspring of the Biblical Cush, mentioned in the Genesis.
		The Cushitic tone-accent system is mostly active at the grammar and discourse levels to indicate grammatical categories and information structure rather than to make a difference in word meaning.
		Cushitic languages are written in several scripts, among them Roman-based alphabets, Ethiopic script, and Osmanya.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july/cushtic.html (530 words)

	Web resources for Cushitic languages
		There are some 30-50 Cushitic languages, all of which are spoken in north-eastern Africa.
		The westward wanderings of Cushitic pastoralists: explorations in the prehistory of Central Africa (PDF).
		Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamaya and Diraasha areas, with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) - Part II (PDF).
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/cushitic.html (807 words)

	Ethiopia - Cushitic Language Groups
		Three other Lowland East Cushitic groups--the Somali, Afar, and Saho--share a pastoral tradition (although some sections of each group have been cultivators for some time), commitments of varying intensity to Islam, and social structures composed of autonomous units defined as descent groups.
		The speakers of the Highland East Cushitic languages (sometimes called the Sidamo languages after a version of the name of their largest component) numbered more than 2 million in 1970.
		There are six groups of Central Cushitic (Agew) speakers, five of which live in the central highlands surrounded by Amhara.
	countrystudies.us /ethiopia/50.htm (1609 words)

	Definition of Cushitic - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Learn more about "Cushitic" and related topics at Britannica.com
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	www.m-w.com /dictionary/Cushitic (48 words)

	African Languages: Cushitic Languages
		The Cushitic languages are one of the main braches of the Afro-Asiatic (formerly Hamito-Semitic) language family.
		The Cushitic languages are normally divided into four geographical sub-branches.
		The dominant languages, both in terms of number of speakers and geographical extension, are
	www.koeppe.de /html/e_kusch.htm (223 words)

	King Sahela Selassie of Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia)
		These populations spoke languages that belong to the Afro-Asiatic super-language family, a group of related languages that includes Omotic, Cushitic, and Semitic, all of which are found in Ethiopia today.
		In the case of Cushitic, these include Agew in the central and northern highlands and, in regions to the east and southeast, Saho, Afar, Somali, Sidamo, and Oromo, all spoken by peoples who would play major roles in the subsequent history of the region.
		According to linguistic and limited archaeological analyses, plough agriculture based on grain cultivation was established in the drier, grassier parts of the northern highlands by at least several millennia before the Christian era.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/sahelaselassie.html (1316 words)

	Imperial Ethiopia - Ethiopian Languages
		The Afro-Asiatic (Hamo Semitic) language group, which includes the Semitic and Cushitic languages of Ethiopia, developed during the eighth millennium BC (BCE).
		The Cushitic languages of southern and eastern Ethiopia include Orominga and Somali, among others.
		The Omotic languages of the Omo River Valley are Afro-Asiatic but closely related to the Cushitic languages.
	www.imperialethiopia.org /languages.htm (344 words)

	Meru history - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya
		Some studies have recently shown that at least some of the Meru are Cushitic in origin, although the only thing that is really taught from these studies is a lesson warning against attempting to apply simple sets of criteria to everyone.
		Both the notions 'Bantu' and 'Cushitic' are essentially linguistic, and although these classifications can often be of help in determining the origins of different peoples, in the case of the Meru, they really do become irrelevant, as you're about to discover...
		In any case, 'Cushitic' is a misnomer, as most of these theories have the Meru coming from the region of the Nile, making them Nilotes like the Maasai and Turkana.
	www.bluegecko.org /kenya/tribes/meru/history.htm (2879 words)

	Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach"
		Arabic Canaanite ------ (Hebrew and Phoenician) [[ Cushitic and Omotic Trees Omitted ]] (Adapted from Hetzron l975) Ethio-Semitic ____________________________________________
		The military forces were drawn from a number of diverse ethnic groups: perhaps largely Agew, but with significant numbers of speakers of other Cushitic and Omotic languages -- they may have had Nilo-Saharan-speaking servants, slaves, and artisans.
		A lingua franca based on "Cushomotic" syntax (i.e., verb-final) and Semitic lexicon was being used for communication in the ranks and among many of the Agew peasants of Amhara.
	www.abyssiniagateway.net /info/bender.html (1976 words)

	Appendix 4: The Somali Ethnic Group and Clan System
		According to the elders of the Beja ethnic group in Ethiopia, another Cushitic ethnic group, they do explicitly claim to be descendents of Cush, the son of Ham, the son of Noah.
		The move of their capital from Napata to Meroë was probably due to the combination of an Egyptian military expedition that occupied Napata and the better conditions for producing iron at Meroë.
		They are a Cushitic ethnic group that makes up about 40% of the population of Ethiopia today -- sometimes called the Galla, although they themselves do not like the name of Galla.
	www.civicwebs.com /cwvlib/africa/somalia/1995/reunification/appendix_4.htm (5965 words)

	About Caabudwaaq Education
		That school's primary purpose was to promote 'Waaqism' but as education developed it became an instrument to produce skilled labour for the 'settlers' camel boys, goat herders and clerical staff for the colonial and cushitic missionaries 'Waqism' administration.
		Education in the colonial and cushitic missionaries period was racially stratified.
		Up to independence there were, therefore, great disparities in educational opportunities in caabudwaaq city not only between the clan rivals but also between the different clan inhabitants within the city as well as the entire Galgaduud region.
	www.geocities.com /viaconi/abudeduc.html (649 words)

	Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Peoples ~a HREF="/et_00_00.html#et_02_04"
		Speakers of East Cushitic languages are found in the highlands and lowlands of the center and south, and other Cushitic speakers in the center and north; Omotic speakers live in the south; and Nilo-Saharan speakers in the southwest and west along the border with Sudan.
		Three other Lowland East Cushitic groups--the Somali, Afar, and Saho--share a pastoral tradition (although some sections of each group have been cultivators for some time), commitments of varying intensity to Islam, and social structures composed of autonomous units defined as descent groups (see Glossary).
		The relatively limited area in which they live, the diversity of their languages, and other linguistic considerations suggest that the ancestors of the speakers of Omotic languages have been in place for many millennia.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/etsave/et_02_04.html (5506 words)

	Archaeo Astronomy - Article in ANTHROQUEST
		Concerning the site at Namoratunga, and considering that the use of pillars is apparently necessary to the derivation of the calendar, such horizon markers as are found there may, indeed, have been an ancient observatory.
		Petroglyphs on the pillars at Namoratunga may also hold the possibility of being ancient and, if Cushitic, may represent the alignment stars or moon.
		Cushitic script has never been deciphered and any hints as to the meaning of tits symbols could be significant clues with very exciting prospects indeed!
	www.tusker.com /Archaeo/art.anthroquest.htm (1691 words)

	Gene B. Gragg
		Cushitic and Afroasiatic Comparative Linguistics, Historical and Computational Linguistics, Unaffiliated Languages of ANE (Sumerian, Hurrian, Urartian).
		Voigt (ed.) Papers in Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics (Berlin, 1996).
		"Cushitic Languages", chapter in survey of Afroasiatic Historical Grammar, ed.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/nelc/facultypages/gragg/index.html (740 words)

	A Summary of the Cushite Peoples of Eastern Africa
		However, the term Cushite is primarily a linguistic designation, the standard way of referencing people groups, with an ethno-linguistic designation.
		The Cushite peoples are thus those who speak languages of the Cushite cluster in the Afro-Asiatic family.
		The Beja cultural base is Cushitic, the root racial stock being related to the ancient Egyptians, as is the Beja language.
	endor.hsutx.edu /~obiwan/articles/cushite.html (4925 words)

	Hamito-Semitic languages: The Hamitic Subfamily
		The Arabic alphabet is employed, except in the case of the Tamazight and Tamachek dialects, which continues to use an ancient Berber alphabet known as Tifinagh.
		The two principal Cushitic languages are Oromo, the tongue of 20 million people in Ethiopia and Kenya, and Somali, spoken by 9 million people in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti.
		Among the many other Cushitic languages are Saho-Afar, Agau, Beja, Burji, Geleba, Gimira, Janjero, Konso, Kaffa, Maji, and Sidamo.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/society/A0858548.html (408 words)

	Profile of the Mukogodo People of Kenya
		The earlier Southern Cushites were the first settlers we know of following the indigenous San (Bushmen).
		Identity: Various old Cushite groups in the Rift Valley of Kenya and Tanzania have become affiliated with various Nilotic tribes as clients, mostly as a self-defense for their own preservation under the various waves of Nilotic migration into their ancestral area.
		The El Molo are also an Eastern Cushite group, related to the Somali and Rendille.
	orvillejenkins.com /profiles/mukogodo.html (702 words)

	mcclang
		Cushitic languages belong to the larger Afro-Asiatic language family.
		J.C. Winter (1979) has traced the role of widespread Aasáx-Maa bilingualism, epidemic diseases, German colonial policies, and inter-ethnic economic and power relations which, by the early 1900s, precipitated the Aasáx people's complete shift to using the Maa language.
		Formerly, they werealso first-language speakers of distinct Cushitic and Southern Nilotic languages.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~dlpayne/maasai/mcclang.htm (616 words)

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