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Afar
Afar
Qafaraf
Native to	Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Region	Horn of Africa
Ethnicity	Afar
Native speakers	1,990,800 (2017)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Cushitic Saho–Afar Afar; ; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	aa
ISO 639-2	aar
ISO 639-3	aar
Glottolog	afar1241
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The Afar language (Afar: Qafaraf) (also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is a lowland East Cushitic language spoken by the Afar people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is thought to have 1.5 million speakers. Its most similar language is the Saho language.^[2]

References[change | change source]

↑ "Afar". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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[1] "Afar". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-19.

[2] Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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Afar
Qafaraf
Native to	Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Region	Horn of Africa
Ethnicity	Afar
Native speakers	1,990,800 (2017)^[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Cushitic Saho–Afar Afar
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Djibouti Eritrea Ethiopia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	`aa`
ISO 639-2	`aar`
ISO 639-3	`aar`
Glottolog	`afar1241`
This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA.