"Qafar" redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Qafar, Iran.
Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Eritrea
Afar
Qafar af
Native to
Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Region
Horn of Africa
Ethnicity
Afar
Native speakers
2.6 million (2019–2020)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Cushitic
Lowland East
Saho–Afar
Afar
Dialects
Aussa Ba'adu Central Afar Northern Afar
Writing system
Latin
Official status
Official language in
Ethiopia
Recognised minority language in
Djibouti Eritrea
Language codes
ISO 639-1
aa
ISO 639-2
aar
ISO 639-3
aar
Glottolog
afar1241
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Afar (Afar: Qafaraf; also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken by the Afar people inhabiting Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Afar (Afar: Qafaraf; also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken by the Afar people...
live in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and in northern Djibouti, as well as the entire southern coast of Eritrea. The Afar speak the Afarlanguage, which is...
The languages of Djibouti include Afar, Arabic, Somali and French. Somali and Afar are the most widely spoken tongues, and Arabic and French serve as the...
The Afar Region (/ˈɑːfɑːr/; Afar: Qafar Rakaakayak; Amharic: ዓፋር ክልል), formerly known as Region 2, is a regional state in northeastern Ethiopia and the...
Other Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the Semitic...
Look up afar or Afar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Afar may refer to: Afarlanguage, an East Cushitic languageAfar people, an ethnic group of Djibouti...
completely designed with saho language. Saho is so closely related to the Cushitic Afarlanguage, spoken as a mother tongue by the Afar people, that some linguists...
(3 million), and Afar (2 million). Oromo serves as one of the official working languages of Ethiopia and is also the working language of several of the...
The Afar Triangle (also called the Afar Depression) is a geological depression caused by the Afar Triple Junction, which is part of the Great Rift Valley...
mainland Africa). French and Arabic are its two official languages, Afar and Somali are national languages. About 94% of Djiboutians adhere to Islam, which is...
Other Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the Semitic...
Ethiopia, and Djibouti. They speak the Afarlanguage as a mother tongue, and are predominantly Muslim. Afars in Eritrea number about 397,000 individuals...
of Arqiqo in 1589, thus containing them on a narrow coastline strip. The Afar Sultanate maintained the remaining Ethiopian port on the Red Sea, at Baylul...
The main languages spoken in Eritrea are Tigrinya, Tigre, Kunama, Bilen, Nara, Saho, Afar, and Beja. The country's working languages are Tigrinya, Arabic...
Mekelle; by July the same year, they had also advanced into the Amhara and Afar regions. In early November 2021, the TDF, together with the Oromo Liberation...
known as a Gile in Afarlanguage, in Somali known as Qolxad, is a type of dagger with a long curved blade used by the Somali and Afar people found in Djibouti...
discovered in 1997 from the Upper Herto member of the Bouri Formation in the Afar Triangle, Ethiopia. The remains have been dated as between 154,000 and 160...
Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed (Afar: Qabdulkadir Kamil Macammad, Arabic: عبد القادر كامل محمد; born 1 July 1952) is a Djiboutian politician who has been Prime...
dependencies along with their capital cities, in English and non-English official language(s). In bold: internationally recognized sovereign states The 193 member...
romanization of Arabic letter alif ⟨ا⟩ Ꜳ, an orthographic ligature Afarlanguage (ISO 639-1 language code aa) Aa (Bengali), a Bengali letter AA, a bra size AA...
characters. The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (Afar: Qafar Uguugumoh Demokrasiyyoh Inkiinoh Fooca; abbreviated ARDUF) is an Afar political party...
Somali and Afar Sultans. During the ensuing period, it served as the capital of French Somaliland and its successor the French Territory of the Afars and Issas...
world reported in 2019. Erta Ale means "smoking mountain" in the local Afarlanguage and its southernmost pit is known locally as "the gateway to hell"....
Mahamoud Ali Youssouf (Afar: Macamud Qali Yuusuf, Somali: Maxamuud Cali Yuusuf, Arabic: محمود علي يوسف; born 2 September 1965) is a Djiboutian diplomat...