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Cushitic languages
The
Cushitic languages
are a branch of the
Afroasiatic
language family
spoken primarily in the
Horn of Africa
(
Somalia
,
Eritrea
,
Djibouti
, and
Ethiopia
), as well as the
Nile Valley
(
Sudan
and
Egypt
), and parts of the
African Great Lakes
region (
Tanzania
and
Kenya
). The branch is named after the Biblical character
Cush
, who is identified as an ancestor of the speakers of these specific languages as early as 947 CE (in
Al-Masudi
's Arabic history
Meadows of Gold
).
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