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| | A Summary of the Cushite Peoples of Eastern Africa |
 | | The Beni-Amer group, speaking Tigre (a Semitic language related to Amharic and Tigrinya), or bilingual in To Bedawie, and often trilingual in Arabic, are associated with the Tigre, as an upper caste, but Tigre tribes are not considered Beja. |
 | | Literacy is in the Standard Somali of the North and Mogadishu, which must be learned as a separate language by Maay speakers, and thus is not a suitable evangelization medium. |
 | | It may be more than one language; the dialects form a continuum Standard Somali is difficult or unintelligible to Maay speakers, except for those who have learned it through mass communications, urbanization, and internal movement. |
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