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Cushitic
Geographic
distribution		Egypt, Sudan, Horn of Africa, East Africa
EthnicityCushites
Native speakers
c. 85 million
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
  • Cushitic
Proto-languageProto-Cushitic
Subdivisions
Language codes
ISO 639-2 / 5cus
Glottologcush1243
ELPTemplate:Endangered Languages Project
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Distribution of the Cushitic languages in Africa
File:Cushitic map.svg
Map of the Cushitic languages

The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As of 2012, the Cushitic languages with over one million speakers were Oromo, Somali, Beja, Afar, Hadiyya, Kambaata, and Sidama.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Official status

The Cushitic languages with the greatest number of total speakers are Oromo (37 million),[1] Somali (24 million),[2] Beja (3.2 million),[3] Sidamo (3 million),[4] and Afar (2 million).[5]

Oromo serves as one of the official working languages of Ethiopia[6] and is also the working language of several of the states within the Ethiopian federal system including Oromia,[7] Harari and Dire Dawa regional states and of the Oromia Zone in the Amhara Region.[8]

Somali is the first of two official languages of Somalia and three official languages of Somaliland.[9][10] It also serves as a language of instruction in Djibouti,[11] and as the working language of the Somali Region in Ethiopia.[8]

Beja, Afar, Blin and Saho, the languages of the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic that are spoken in Eritrea, are languages of instruction in the Eritrean elementary school curriculum.[12] The constitution of Eritrea also recognizes the equality of all natively spoken languages.[13] Additionally, Afar is a language of instruction in Djibouti,[11] as well as the working language of the Afar Region in Ethiopia.[8]

Origin and prehistory

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Christopher Ehret argues for a unified Proto-Cushitic language in the Red Sea Hills as far back as the Early Holocene.[14] The expansion of Cushitic languages of the Southern Cushitic branch into the Rift Valley is associated with the Savanna Pastoral Neolithic.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Typological characteristics

Phonology

Most Cushitic languages have a simple five-vowel system with phonemic length (Script error: No such module "IPA".); a notable exception are the Agaw languages, which do not contrast vowel length, but have one or two additional central vowels.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The consonant inventory of many Cushitic languages includes glottalic consonants, e.g. in Oromo, which has the ejectives Script error: No such module "IPA". and the implosive Script error: No such module "IPA"..Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Less common are pharyngeal consonants Script error: No such module "IPA"., which appear e.g. in Somali or the Saho–Afar languages.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Most Cushitic languages have a system of restrictive tone also known as "pitch accent" in which tonal contours overlaid on the stressed syllable play a prominent role in morphology and syntax.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Grammar

Nouns

Nouns are inflected for case and number. All nouns are further grouped into two gender categories, masculine gender and feminine gender. In many languages, gender is overtly marked directly on the noun (e.g. in Awngi, where all female nouns carry the suffix -a).Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

The case system of many Cushitic languages is characterized by marked nominative alignment, which is typologically quite rare and predominantly found in languages of Africa.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In marked nominative languages, the noun appears in unmarked "absolutive" case when cited in isolation, or when used as predicative noun and as object of a transitive verb; on the other hand, it is explicitly marked for nominative case when it functions as subject in a transitive or intransitive sentence.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Possession is usually expressed by genitive case marking of the possessor. South Cushitic—which has no case marking for subject and object—follows the opposite strategy: here, the possessed noun is marked for construct case, e.g. Iraqw afé-r mar'i "doors" (lit. "mouths of houses"), where afee "mouth" is marked for construct case.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Most nouns are by default unmarked for number, but can be explicitly marked for singular ("singulative") and plural number. E.g. in Bilin, dəmmu "cat(s)" is number-neutral, from which singular dəmmura "a single cat" and plural dəmmut "several cats" can be formed. Plural formation is very diverse, and employs ablaut (i.e. changes of root vowels or consonants), suffixes and reduplication.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Verbs

Verbs are inflected for person/number and tense/aspect. Many languages also have a special form of the verb in negative clauses.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Most Cushitic languages distinguish seven person/number categories: first, second, third person, singular and plural number, with a masculine/feminine gender distinction in third person singular. The most common conjugation type employs suffixes. Some languages also have a prefix conjugation: in Beja and the Saho–Afar languages, the prefix conjugation is still a productive part of the verb paradigm, whereas in most other languages, e.g. Somali, it is restricted to only a few verbs. It is generally assumed that historically, the suffix conjugation developed from the older prefix conjugation, by combining the verb stem with a suffixed auxiliary verb.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The following table gives an example for the suffix and prefix conjugations in affirmative present tense in Somali.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

suffix
conjugation 		prefix
conjugation
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1st
person 		singular Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".
plural Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".
2nd
person 		singular Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".
plural Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".
3rd
person 		singular masc. Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".
fem. Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".
plural Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "Lang".

Syntax

Basic word order is verb final, the most common order being subject–object–verb (SOV). The subject or object can also follow the verb to indicate focus.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Classification

Overview

The phylum was first designated as Cushitic in 1858.[15] Traditionally, Cushitic has been divided into North Cushitic (consisting solely of Beja), Central Cushitic (the Agaw languages), and the large East Cushitic group. Greenberg (1950) argued for the inclusion of the South Cushitic group. The Omotic languages, once classified as West Cushitic, have almost universally been reclassified as a separate branch of Afroasiatic.

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This classification has not been without contention. For example, it has been argued that Southern Cushitic belongs in the Eastern branch, with its divergence explained by contact with Hadza- and Sandawe-like languages. Hetzron (1980) and Fleming (post-1981) exclude Beja altogether, though this is rejected by other linguists. Some of the classifications that have been proposed over the years are summarized here:

Other subclassifications of Cushitic
Greenberg (1963)[16] Hetzron (1980)Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. Orel & Stolbova (1995) Ehret (2011)[17]
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  • Cushitic
    • Northern Cushitic (Beja)
    • Central Cushitic
    • Eastern Cushitic
    • Western Cushitic (Omotic)
    • Southern Cushitic
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  • Beja (not part of Cushitic)
  • Cushitic
    • Highland
      • Rift Valley (= Highland East Cushitic)
      • Agaw
    • Lowland
      • Saho–Afar
      • Southern
        • Omo-Tana
        • Oromoid
        • Dullay
        • Yaaku
        • Iraqw (i.e. Southern Cushitic)
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  • Cushitic
    • Omotic
    • Beja
    • Agaw
    • Sidamic
      (i.e. Highland East Cushitic)
    • East Lowlands
    • Rift (Southern)
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  • Cushitic
    • North Cushitic (Beja)
    • Agäw–East–South Cushitic
      • Agäw
      • East–South Cushitic
        • Eastern Cushitic
        • Southern Cushitic

For debate on the placement of the Cushitic branch within Afroasiatic, see Afroasiatic languages.

Beja

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Beja constitutes the only member of the Northern Cushitic subgroup. As such, Beja contains a number of linguistic innovations that are unique to it, as is also the situation with the other subgroups of Cushitic (e.g. idiosyncratic features in Agaw or Central Cushitic).[18][19][20] Hetzron (1980) argues that Beja therefore may comprise an independent branch of the Afroasiatic family.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. However, this suggestion has been rejected by most other scholars.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. The characteristics of Beja that differ from those of other Cushitic languages are instead generally acknowledged as normal branch variation.[18]

Didier Morin (2001) assigned Beja to Lowland East Cushitic on the grounds that the language shared lexical and phonological features with the Afar and Saho idioms, and also because the languages were historically spoken in adjacent speech areas. However, among linguists specializing in the Cushitic languages, the standard classification of Beja as North Cushitic is accepted.[21]

Blemmyan, an early form of Beja – mostly attested through onomastic evidence, but also directly by a small text on an ostracon from Saqqara – was spoken by the Blemmyes, an ancient people of Lower Nubia that appears in the Egyptian historical records from the 6th century BCE onwards. It is also likely that the Medjay spoke a language that was ancestral to Beja.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Omotic

Cushitic was formerly seen as also including most or all of the Omotic languages. An early view by Enrico Cerulli proposed a "Sidama" subgroup comprising most of the Omotic languages and the Sidamic group of Highland East Cushitic. Mario Martino Moreno in 1940 divided Cerulli's Sidama, uniting the Sidamic proper and the Lowland Cushitic languages as East Cushitic, the remainder as West Cushitic or ta/ne Cushitic. The Aroid languages were not considered Cushitic by either scholar (thought by Cerulli to be instead Nilotic); they were added to West Cushitic by Joseph Greenberg in 1963. Further work in the 1960s soon led to the putative West Cushitic being seen as typologically divergent and renamed as "Omotic".[22]

Today the inclusion of Omotic as a part of Cushitic has been abandoned. Omotic is most often seen as an independent branch of Afroasiatic, primarily due to the work of Harold C. Fleming (1974) and Lionel Bender (1975); some linguists like Paul Newman (1980) challenge Omotic's classification within the Afroasiatic family itself.

Other divergent languages

There are also a few languages of uncertain classification, including Yaaku, Dahalo, Aasax, Kw'adza, Boon, Ongota and the Cushitic component of Mbugu (Ma'a). There is a wide range of opinions as to how the languages are interrelated.[23]

The positions of the Dullay languages and of Yaaku are uncertain. They have traditionally been assigned to an East Cushitic subbranch along with Highland (Sidamic) and Lowland East Cushitic. However, Hayward thinks that East Cushitic may not be a valid node and that its constituents should be considered separately when attempting to work out the internal relationships of Cushitic.[23] Bender (2020) suggests Yaaku to be a divergent member of the Arboroid group.[24]

The Afroasiatic identity of Ongota has also been broadly questioned, as is its position within Afroasiatic among those who accept it, because of the "mixed" appearance of the language and a paucity of research and data. Harold C. Fleming (2006) proposes that Ongota is a separate branch of Afroasiatic.[25] Bonny Sands (2009) thinks the most convincing proposal is by Savà and Tosco (2003), namely that Ongota is an East Cushitic language with a Nilo-Saharan substratum. In other words, it would appear that the Ongota people once spoke a Nilo-Saharan language but then shifted to speaking a Cushitic language while retaining some characteristics of their earlier Nilo-Saharan language.[26][27]

Hetzron (1980)[28] and Ehret (1995) have suggested that the South Cushitic languages (Rift languages) are a part of Lowland East Cushitic, the only one of the six groups with much internal diversity.

Hypothesized Cushitic substrate languages

Some of the ancient peoples of Nubia are hypothesized to have spoken languages belonging to the Cushitic group, especially the people of the C-Group culture. It has been speculated that these people left a substratum of Cushitic words in the modern Nubian languages. Given the scarcity of data (all onomastic or toponymic), however, it remains unclear if the C-Group culture in fact spoke a Cushitic language.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.

Christopher Ehret (1998) proposed on the basis of loanwords that South Cushitic languages (called "Tale" and "Bisha" by Ehret) were spoken in an area closer to Lake Victoria than are found today, and that these people were ancestral to today linguistically integrated groups like the Tutsi.[29][30]

Also, historically, the Southern Nilotic languages have undergone extensive contact with a "missing" branch of East Cushitic that Heine (1979) refers to as Baz.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.[31] Mous and Rapold (2025) instead attribute these loans to various stages of other, already attested Cushitic languages.[32]

Reconstruction

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Christopher Ehret proposed a reconstruction of Proto-Cushitic in 1987, but did not base this on individual branch reconstructions.[33] Grover Hudson (1989) has done some preliminary work on Highland East Cushitic,[34] David Appleyard (2006) has proposed a reconstruction of Proto-Agaw,[35] and Roland Kießling and Maarten Mous (2003) have jointly proposed a reconstruction of West Rift Southern Cushitic.[36] No reconstruction has been published for Lowland East Cushitic, though Paul D. Black wrote his (unpublished) dissertation on the topic in 1974.[37] Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1979) proposed a reconstruction of the consonants of Proto-East Cushitic.[38] No comparative work has yet brought these branch reconstructions together.

Comparative vocabulary

Basic vocabulary

Sample basic vocabulary of Cushitic languages from Vossen & Dimmendaal (2020:318) (with PSC denoting Proto-Southern Cushitic):[39]

Branch Northern Southern Eastern Central
Gloss Beja[40] Iraqw[41][42] Oromo[43] Somali[44] Awŋi[45] Kemantney[46]
'foot' ragad/lagad yaaee miila/luka lug lɨkw lɨkw
'tooth' kwire siħinoo ilkee ilig ɨrkwí ɨrkw
'hair' hami/d.ifi seʔeengw dabbasaa timo ʧiʧifí ʃibka
'heart' gin'a muuná onnee wadne ɨʃew lɨbäka
'house' gau/'anda doʔ mana guri/min ŋɨn nɨŋ
'wood' hindi ɬupi mukha qori/alwaax kani kana
'meat' ʃa/dof fuʔnaay foon so'/hilib ɨʃʃi sɨya
'water' yam maʔay biʃan biyo/maayo aɣu axw
'door' ɖefa/yaf piindo balbala irrid/albaab lɨmʧi/sank bäla
'grass' siyam/ʃuʃ gitsoo ʧ'itaa caws sigwi ʃanka
'black' hadal/hadod boo gurraʧʧa madow ʧárkí ʃämäna
'red' adal/adar daaʕaat diimaa cas/guduud dɨmmí säraɣ
'road' darab loohi karaa/godaana jid/waddo dad gorwa
'mountain' reba tɬooma tuullu buur kán dɨba
'spear' fena/gwiʃ'a *laabala (PSC) waraana waran werém ʃämärgina
'stick' (n) 'amis/'adi *ħada ulee/dullaa ul gɨmb kɨnbɨ
'fire' n'e ʔaɬa ibidda dab leg wɨzɨŋ
'donkey' mek daqwaay haare dameer dɨɣwarí dɨɣora
'cat' bissa/kaffa maytsí adure bisad/dummad anguʧʧa damiya
'dog' yas/mani seeaay seere eey gɨséŋ gɨzɨŋ
'cow' ʃ'a/yiwe ɬee sa'a sac ɨllwa käma
'lion' hada diraangw lenʧ'a libaax wuʤi gämäna
'hyena' galaba/karai *bahaa (PSC) waraabo waraabe ɨɣwí wäya
'sister' kwa ħoʔoo obboleeytii walaalo/abbaayo séná ʃän
'brother' san nana obboleessa walaal/abboowe sén zän
'mother' de aayi haaɗa hooyo ʧwá gäna
'father' baba taata aabba aabbe tablí aba
'sit' s'a/ʈaʈam iwiit taa'uu fadhiiso ɨnʤikw- täkosɨm-
'sleep' diw/nari guuʔ rafuu hurud ɣur\y- gänʤ-
'eat' tam/'am aag ɲaaʧʧu cun ɣw- xw-
'drink' gw'a/ʃifi wah ɗugaaiti cab zɨq- ʤax-
'kill' dir gaas aʤʤeesuu dil kw- kw-
'speak' hadid/kwinh ʔooʔ dubbattu hadal dibs- gämär-
'thin' 'iyai/bilil *ʔiiraw (PSC) hap'ii caato ɨnʧu k'ät'än-
'fat' dah/l'a *du/*iya (PSC) furdaa shilis/buuran morí wäfär-
'small' dis/dabali *niinaw (PSC) t'innoo yar ʧɨlí ʃigwey
'big' win/ragaga *dir (PSC) guddaa/dagaaga weyn dɨngulí fɨraq

Numerals

Comparison of numerals in individual Cushitic languages:[47]

Classification Language 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
North Beja (Bedawi) ɡaːl ˈmale mheːj ˈfaɖiɡ eːj (lit: 'hand') aˈsaɡwir (5 + 1) asaːˈrama (5 + 2) asiˈmheːj (5 + 3) aʃˈʃaɖiɡ (5 + 4) ˈtamin
Central Bilin (Bilen) laxw / la ləŋa səxwa sədʒa ʔankwa wəlta ləŋəta səxwəta səssa ʃɨka
Central, Eastern Xamtanga lə́w líŋa ʃáqwa síza ákwa wálta láŋta / lánta sə́wta sʼájtʃʼa sʼɨ́kʼa
Central, Southern Awngi ɨ́mpɨ́l / láɢú láŋa ʃúɢa sedza áŋkwa wɨ́lta láŋéta sóɢéta sésta tsɨ́kka
Central, Western Kimant (Qimant) laɣa / la liŋa siɣwa sədʒa ankwa wəlta ləŋəta səɣwəta səssa ʃɨka
East, Highland Alaaba matú lamú sasú ʃɔːlú ʔɔntú lehú lamalá hizzeːtú hɔnsú tɔnnsú
East, Highland Burji mitʃːa lama fadia foola umutta lia lamala hiditta wonfa tanna
East, Highland Gedeo mitte lame sase ʃoole onde dʒaane torbaane saddeeta sallane tomme
East, Highland Hadiyya mato lamo saso sooro onto loho lamara sadeento honso tommo
East, Highland Kambaata máto lámo sáso ʃóolo ónto lého lamála hezzéeto hónso tordúma
East, Highland Libido mato lamo saso sooro ʔonto leho lamara sadeento honso tommo
East, Highland Sidamo (Sidaama) mite lame sase ʃoole onte lee lamala sette honse tonne
East, Dullay Gawwada tóʔon lákke ízzaħ sálaħ xúpin tappi táʔan sétten kóllan ħúɗɗan
East, Dullay Tsamai (Ts'amakko) doːkːo laːkːi zeːħ salaħ χobin tabːen taħːan sezːen ɡolːan kuŋko
East, Konsoid Bussa (Harso-Bobase) tóʔo lakki, lam(m)e,
lamay		 ezzaħ,
siséħ		 salaħ xúpin cappi caħħan sásse /sésse kollan húddʼan
East, Konsoid Dirasha (Gidole) ʃakka(ha) (fem.) /
ʃokko(ha) (masc.)		 lakki halpatta afur hen lehi tappa lakkuʃeti tsinqoota hunda
East, Konsoid Konso takka lakki sessa afur ken lehi tappa sette saɡal kuɗan
East, Oromo Orma tokkō lamā sadi afurī ʃanī dʒa torbā saddeetī saɡalī kuɗenī
East, Oromo West Central Oromo tokko lama sadii afur ʃani dʒaha torba saddet saɡal kuɗan
East, Saho-Afar Afar enèki / inìki nammàya sidòħu /
sidòħoòyu		 ferèyi /
fereèyi		 konòyu /
konoòyu		 leħèyi /
leħeèyi		 malħiini baħaàra saɡaàla tàbana
East, Saho-Afar Saho inik lam:a adoħ afar ko:n liħ malħin baħar saɡal taman
East, Rendille-Boni Boni kóów, hál-ó (masc.) /
hás-só (fem)		 lába síddéh áfar ʃan líh toddóu siyyéèd saaɡal tammán
East, Rendille-Boni Rendille kôːw /
ko:kalɖay (isolated form)		 lámːa sɛ́jːaħ áfːar t͡ʃán líħ tɛːbá sijːɛ̂ːt saːɡáːl tomón
East, Somali Garre (Karre) kow lamma siddeh afar ʃan liʔ toddobe siyeed saɡaal tommon
East, Somali Somali ków labá sáddex áfar shán lix toddobá sideed sagaal toban
East, Somali Tunni (Af-Tunni) ków lámma síddiʔ áfar ʃán líʔ toddóbo siyéed saɡáal tómon
East, Arboroid Arbore tokkó (masc.) /
takká (fem.), ˈtaˈka		 laamá, ˈlaːma sezzé, ˈsɛːze ʔafúr, ʔaˈfur tʃénn, t͡ʃɛn dʒih, ˈd͡ʒi tuzba, ˈtuːzba suyé, suˈjɛ saaɡalɗ,
ˈsaɡal		 tommoɲɗ,
ˈtɔmːɔn
East, Arboroid Bayso (Baiso) koo (masc.)
too (fem.)		 lɑ́ɑmɑ sédi ɑ́fɑr ken le todobɑ́ siddéd sɑ́ɑɡɑɑl tómon
East, Arboroid Daasanach tɪ̀ɡɪ̀ɗɪ̀ (adj.) /
tàqàt͡ʃ ̚ (ord.)/ ʔɛ̀ɾ (ord.)		 nàːmə̀ sɛ̀d̪ɛ̀ ʔàfʊ̀ɾ t͡ʃɛ̀n lɪ̀h t̪ɪ̀ːjə̀ síɪ̀t̚ sàːl t̪òmòn
East, Arboroid El Molo t'óko / t'áka l'ááma séépe áfur kên, cên yíi tíípa, s'ápa fúe s'áákal t'ómon
South or East Dahalo vattúkwe (masc.) /
vattékwe (fem.)		 líima kʼaba saʕála dáwàtte,
possibly ← 'hand'		 sita < Swahili saba < Swahili nane kenda / tis(i)a kumi
South Alagwa (Wasi) wák ndʒad tam tsʼiɡaħ kooʔan laħooʔ faanqʼw dakat ɡwelen mibi
South Burunge leyiŋ / leẽ t͡ʃʼada tami t͡ʃʼiɡaħa koːʔani laħaʔu faɴqʼu daɡati ɡweleli mili
South Gorowa (Gorwaa) wak tsʼar tám tsʼiyáħ kooʔán laħóoʔ fâanqʼw dakáat ɡwaléel / ɡweléel mibaanɡw
South Iraqw wák tsár tám tsíyáħ kooán laħoóʔ faaɴw dakaát ɡwaleél mibaaɴw

See also

Notes

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