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Agaw
Central Cushitic
EthnicityAgaw
Geographic
distribution
Ethiopia and central Eritrea
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
  • Cushitic
    • Agaw
Subdivisions
  • Awngi
  • Bilen
  • Qimant
  • Xamtanga
Glottologcent2193

The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken by several groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea. They form the main substratum influence on Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages.[1]

  1. ^ Hetzron (1976, p. 5)

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