cushitic in English

adjective
1
relating to or denoting a group of East African languages of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken mainly in Ethiopia and Somalia, including Somali and Oromo.
noun
1
the Cushitic group of languages.

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1. Cushiony (Thesaurus) cushion rafter Cushitic

2. The Cushitic language of the Afar

3. The Afar people are a Cushitic, predominantly nomadic race, of whom more than 80% are practising transhumant pastoralism for subsistence

4. The Afar language (Afar: QAfaraf) (also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, QAfar af) is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch

5. ‘The Afar also suffer from kidney stones, a consequence of not drinking enough water.’ 2 mass noun The Cushitic language of the Afar, with about 700,000 speakers

6. Afar, Amharic Adal, Arabic Danakil (singular; now pejorative), a people of the Horn of Africa who speak Afar (also known as ’Afar Af), a language of the Eastern Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family

7. The Bilen (also variously transcribed as Blin, and also formerly known as the Bogo, Bogos or North Agaw) are a Cushitic ethnic group in the Eritrea.They are primarily concentrated in central Eritrea, in and around the city of Keren and further south toward Asmara, the nation's capital.

8. Somali Bantu History The Somali Bantus are an ethnic group from Somalia, largely from the Shebelle and Jubba River valleys, in the Southwestern part of the country. Somali Bantus are ethnically and culturally different from the general Somali population, made up of the Cushitic Somali clan, and Arab and Italian minorities (Eno & Van Lehman, 2003).