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South Cushitic languages information


South Cushitic
Rift
Geographic
distribution
Tanzania
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
  • Cushitic
    • South Cushitic
Subdivisions
  • Taita Cushitic (extinct)
  • Nyanza Rift (extinct)[clarification needed]
  • West Rift
  • ? East Rift (extinct)
Glottologsout3054

The South Cushitic or Rift languages of Tanzania are a branch of the Cushitic languages. The most numerous is Iraqw, with half a million speakers. Scholars believe that these languages were spoken by Southern Cushitic agro-pastoralists from Ethiopia, who began migrating southward into the Great Rift Valley in the third millennium BC.[1]

  1. ^ Derek Nurse, Thomas T. Spear (1985). The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 34. ISBN 081221207X.

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