Highland East Cushitic or Burji-Sidamo 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. The most populous language is Sidama, with close to two million speakers.
The languages are:
Burji (divergent)
Sidamoid (also Sidamic)
Sidama
Gedeo
Hadiyya–Libido
Kambaata–Alaba.
The four to six Sidamoid languages are all closely related. Hadiyya and Libido are especially close, as are Kambaata and Alaba. Their relationship with Burji is more distant and was first proposed in 1940;[1] it has been accepted widely but not universally.
^Lamberti, Marcello (1991). "Cushitic and its Classifications". Anthropos: 552–561.
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