Afar

E50164

Afar is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Afar people in the Horn of Africa, especially in Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.

All labels observed (9)

Label Occurrences
Afar canonical 21
Afar people 4
Aussa Afar 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Cushitic language
language
alternativeName Afaraf
linked to: Afar

Qafar
closelyRelatedTo Oromo
Saho
Somali
countryStatus recognized language in Djibouti
recognized language in Eritrea
recognized language in Ethiopia
glottologCode afar1241
hasApproximateSpeakers over 1 million speakers
hasDialects Aussa Afar
linked to: Afar

Central Afar
linked to: Afar

Northern Afar
linked to: Afar
hasStandardizationEfforts orthography development in late 20th century
iso639-1Code aa
iso639-2Code aar
iso639-3Code aar
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Cushitic
linguisticSubgroup Lowland East Cushitic
linked to: Cushitic
morphology agglutinative morphology
nativeName Qafar af
phonologyFeature contrastive vowel length
emphatic consonants
primaryAreaWithinDjibouti Dikhil Region
primaryAreaWithinEritrea Southern Red Sea Region
primaryAreaWithinEthiopia Afar Region
region Horn of Africa
scriptUsage Latin-based orthography used in modern publications
spokenBy Afar people
spokenIn Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
typology SOV word order (tends toward subject–object–verb)
usedAlongside Amharic in Ethiopia
Arabic in Djibouti
Tigrinya in Eritrea
usedFor education at primary level in some areas
folk songs
local administration in Afar Region of Ethiopia
oral poetry
writingSystem Geʽez script
Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (35)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Islamic world hasEthnicGroup Somalis
linked to: Afar
Eritrea majorEthnicGroup Afar people
linked to: Afar
Horn of Africa hasEthnicGroup Afar people
linked to: Afar
Tadjourah Region ethnicGroup Afar people
linked to: Afar
Danakil Desert locatedIn Afar Region
linked to: Afar
Danakil Desert inhabitedBy Afar people
linked to: Afar
Tadjoura languageCommon Afar
Afar hasDialects Northern Afar
linked to: Afar
Afar hasDialects Central Afar
linked to: Afar
Afar hasDialects Aussa Afar
linked to: Afar
Afar alternativeName Afaraf
linked to: Afar
Saho belongsToBranch Saho–Afar branch
linked to: Afar
Randa languageUsed Afar
Afar language hasDialects Northern Afar
linked to: Afar
Afar language hasDialects Central Afar
linked to: Afar
Afar language hasDialects Aussa Afar
linked to: Afar
Cushitic majorLanguage Afar
Qafar hasExonym Afar
Ethiopian maySpeak Afar
Ogaden languageSpoken Afar
Edd languageUsed Afar