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Preferred term

aarAfar  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Afar is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is believed to have 1.5 million speakers, the Afar. The basic word order in Afar, like in other East Cushitic languages, is subject–object–verb. Its speakers have a literacy rate of between one and three per cent. Its closest relative is the Saho language.

Entry terms

  • Afar language

ISO 639-1 code

  • aa

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • aar

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • aar

ISO 639-3 code

  • aar

Notation

  • aar

In other languages

  • Afar

    French

  • afar
  • Afar

    German

  • afar

    Italian

  • Lingua afar
  • afar

    Portuguese

  • Língua afar
  • afar

    Spanish

  • Idioma afar

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/aar

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