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	CONK! Encyclopedia: African_languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The main subfamilies of Afro-Asiatic are the Semitic languages, the Cushitic languages, Berber, and the Chadic languages.
		The Nilotic languages, having expanded substantially with the Nilotic peoples in recent centuries, are a geographically widespread language family and have a large population.
		Language contact (resulting in borrowing) and, with regard to specific idioms and phrases, a similar cultural background have been put forward to account for some of the similarities.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=African_languages (1540 words)

	Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic.
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 35 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya) with about 20 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti) with about 1.5 million.
		Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been largely abandoned; the Omotic languages are considered an isolated branch of Afro-Asiatic.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cushitic_languages (282 words)

	Ethnologue: Introduction
		In many cases the new languages are not languages previously unknown to outsiders, but ones which had been thought to be dialects of another language, and are now known to be distinct enough to be considered separate languages.
		Many languages have become extinct; we have attempted to include only those which have ceased to be spoken recently, are considered by linguists to have special linguistic significance in their family relationships, or which have had some Scripture published.
		Language groups are sometimes reported to be bilingual if a few of the speakers can use a second language to some degree, or if there are no monolinguals; whereas other sources would not classify groups as bilingual unless a large majority of their members could use the second language very well.
	www.ethnologue.com /14/ethno_docs/introduction.asp (4519 words)

	HEC refs
		The influence of Sidamo on the Ethiopic languages of Gurage.
		A note on the relative chronology of the Cushitic verb and genetic classification of the Cushitic languages.
		The Morphology of Nominal Plural in the Cushitic Languages (Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 28).
	www.msu.edu /~hudson/HECrefs.htm (2039 words)

	Cushitic languages
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 21 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya) with about 15 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti) with about 1.5 million.
		Robert Hetzron has suggested that the South Cushitic languages are a subgroup of East Cushitic.
		Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been largely abandoned.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Cushitic (217 words)

	Afroasiatic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		According to one theory, the languages of the Afroasiatic family are thought to have first been spoken along the shores of the Red Sea.
		The principal subdivisions of the West Semitic group are Canaanite, Aramaic (which embraced many dialects in the course of its long history, including Syriac), Arabic, and the unrelated Old and Modern South Arabian.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified with the Cushitic and are spoken by perhaps 3 million people who live in SW Ethiopia in the Omo River region.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Afroasia.html (2033 words)

	Cushitic Branch
		The 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.
		Oromo is a trade languages used for official government purposes, by the public media, in commerce, in the educational system up to the eighth grade, and in a variety of literature.
		Cushitic languages are written in several scripts, among them Roman-based alphabets, Ethiopic script, and Osmanya.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july/cushtic.html (481 words)

	SomaliNet Forum (Archive) - ^^^^^CUSHITIC RELIGION^^^^^
		Cushitic (ksht´k) (KEY), group of languages belonging to the Hamitic subfamily of the Hamito-Semitic family of languages.
		The Semitic languages are named after Shem or Sem, the oldest son of Noah, from whom most of the languages’ speakers were said to be descended.
		A Semitic language (or languages) was brought from S Arabia to Ethiopia during the first millennium B.C. by Semites.
	www.somalinet.com /forum/messages/4669/17136.html?981650665 (5278 words)

	wiki/West Cushitic languages Definition / wiki/West Cushitic languages Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Omotic languages are Afro-Asiatic languagesThe Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia.
		The Omotic languages are fairly agglutinative An agglutinative language is a language in which the words are formed by joining morphemes together.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified as the West subgroup of the Cushitic languagesThe Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/West_Cushitic_languages (571 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		It diverged from the South Arabian languages around the beginning of the Christian era, reaching its greatest extension in the 4th century AD, when it was spoken especially in the kingdom of Aksum on either side of the present-day border of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2726 words)

	The Languages of Tanzania: web links
		ix to 'The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography' by Maho and Sands, Göteborg, 2002.">
		This is the web-appendix to The languages of Tanzania: a bibliography (publ.
		The languages of Tanzania, according to SIL's Ethnologue.
	www.african.gu.se /tanzania/weblinks.html (3685 words)

	Cushitic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 21 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia, and Djibouti) with about 15 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea) with about 1.5 million.
		Robert Hetzron has suggested regarding the South Cushitic languages as a subgroup of East Cushitic.
		Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic languages, but this view has been largely abandoned.
	en.mcfly.org /Cushitic+languages (147 words)

	Foundation For Endangered Languages. Home
		This may entail that language programs which also fulfill cultural revitalization aims, if judged solely on their efficacy of transmitting language, may not be as successful as they might if they solely concentrated on language.
		Related to the interconnectedness of language and culture and the emphasis on language programs that serve a larger cultural purpose is the existence of the 'in-between generation', brought up explicitly by Emmon Bach.
		Even though the language is still spoken by several thousand people in Nigeria and neighbouring Benin, he considers the language as having reached a vulnerable stage by being replaced mainly by Hausa and, to a lesser extent, Zarma.
	www.ogmios.org /65.htm (3952 words)

	Ethnologue: Ethiopia
		Oromo Region, West and Central Ethiopia, and along the Rift Valley escarpment east of Dessie and Woldiya.
		The former language was possibly Eastern Sudanic or an Awngi variety (Bender 1983), or Cushitic (Bender, Bowen, Cooper and Ferguson 1976:14).
		Yemsa is the primary language of the ethnic group.
	www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Ethi.html (3875 words)

	Chadic languages
		The Chadic languages are a member of the Afroasiatic phylum, together with Semitic, Ancient Egyptian, Berber and Cushitic.
		Chadic languages are spoken mostly in the Chad Republic, Northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria.
		Languages of the Chadic family make up for about 25% of the total number of languages spoken in Nigeria.
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/chadic.htm (197 words)

	Languages. The World Factbook. 2003
		Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language) spoken by 35% of the population
		French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
		English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
	www.bartleby.com /151/fields/37.html (1758 words)

	Ethnologue report for Ethiopia
		West Gurage Region, Mareqo woreda, principle villages: Mikayelo, Mesqan, and Hudat.
		West Gurage Region, Chaha is spoken in and around Emdibir, Gura is spoken in and around Gura Megenase and Wirir, Muher is spoken in and around Ch'eza and in the mountains north of Chaha and Ezha, Gyeto is spoken south of Ark'it' in K'abul and K'want'e, Ezha is spoken in Agenna.
		Dialects: The former language was possibly Eastern Sudanic or an Awngi variety (Bender 1983), or Cushitic (Bender, Bowen, Cooper, and Ferguson 1976:14).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Ethiopia (2599 words)

	Map Zones : Eritrea Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Traditionally, agriculture was the norm in the plateau region and in the north and west where rainfall was sufficient.
		In the drier coastal plain and the arid regions of the north and west, livestock raising predominated.
		Children are taught in their native languages, and in the higher grades they also are taught foreign languages, especially Arabic and English.
	kids.mapzones.com /world/eritrea (2475 words)

	Omotic languages - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cushitic and Omotic languages: Proceedings of the Third International Symposium, Berlin, March 17-19, 1994
		Cushitic-Omotic: Papers from the International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic Languages, Cologne, January 6-9, 1986
		Comparative morphology of the Omotic languages (LINCOM studies in African linguistics)
	www.unipedia.info /Omotic.html (238 words)

	African Languages by Countries
		Native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population.
		Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread).
		Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/african_languages.htm (552 words)

	languages of the world
		Mayotte: Mahorian (a Swahili dialect), French (official language) spoken by 35% of the population
		Togo: French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)
		Uganda: English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
	www.wooster.edu /ambassadors/worldlanguages.html (1949 words)

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		Every language must be taken on its own terms; I'm sure many French- and German-speakers find it risible that English speakers can't manage the difference between (what is spelled in French as) ou and u.
		I'd rather stick with approaches like yours, in which the fact that some languages have only one of the phonemes (either trill, /r/, or lateral, /l/) of this subset of the alveolar set, is just a mere and widespread typological feature, with no (necessary) historical implications.
		In the Semitic languages, this still shows up as a contrast between apical stops and fricatives (d, d.; t, t.; z, z.; s, s.); this contrast, which is termed "emphatic", is realized in a number of different ways.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V04/v04.n017 (4587 words)

	dictionary - Languages - Abkhaz
		languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population
		languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major
		common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama
	www.exxun.com /enpp/dy_languages_1.html (590 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashtu (official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism
		French (official), Lingala and Monokutuba (lingua franca trade languages), many local languages and dialects (of which Kikongo is the most widespread)
		English (official) is the language generally used, Irish (official) (Gaelic or Gaeilge) spoken mainly in areas located along the western seaboard
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/fields/2098.html (2168 words)

	Series: Cushitic Language Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The series Cushitic Language Studies is a forum for studies of any kind which may enrich our knowledge in the field of Cushitic languages and dialects.
		Both data-oriented and theory-oriented contributions are welcome: dictionaries, grammatical descriptions, text collections, historical and comparative studies, as well as theoretical works on specific aspects of language structure such as phonology or syntax.
		Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary of a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia
	www.koeppe.de /html/e_kus.htm (214 words)

	Major Languages of the World
		English (universally spoken and is the official language), two major Marshallese dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family, Japanese
		Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca, English spoken by 1%-2% of population note: 120 indigenous languages
		Sinhala (official and national language) 74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8% note: English is commonly used in government and is spoken competently by about 10% of the population
	siakhenn.tripod.com /languages.html (1678 words)

	Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa. [Iranian - Armenian; Altaic languages; Semitic languages; Egyptian / ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa.
		[Iranian - Armenian; Altaic languages; Semitic languages; Egyptian / Coptic / Cushitic / Berber; Regional languages].
		SEBEOK, T. Linguistics in South West Asia and North Africa.
	www.antiqbook.nl /boox/oos/90379.shtml (72 words)

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