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Highland East Cushitic

Highland East Cushitic
Sidamic
Geographic
distribution
Ethiopia
Linguistic classification Afro-Asiatic
Subdivisions
Glottolog high1285

Highland East Cushitic, or Sidamic, is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in south-central Ethiopia. They are often grouped with Lowland East Cushitic, Dullay, and Yaaku as East Cushitic, but that group is not well defined and considered dubious.

The languages are:

Except for Burji, they are closely related. Hadiyya and Libido are especially close, as are Kambaata and Alaba. The most populous language is Sidamo, with close to two million speakers.



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