Afar > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Afar
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Qafar; Afaraf; "Danakil"; "Denkel"; `Afar Af; Adal; Danakäli
Spoken in:
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti
Number of speakers:
979,000 in Ethiopia (1994 census). 905,872 monolinguals (1994 census). Population total all countries: 1,078,200
(Ethnologue)
Code:
aar
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
Saho-Afar; Northern; Afar-Saho (saaf)
Child Dialects:
Northern Afar; North Afar (aar-nor)
Baadu; Ba`adu (aar-baa)
Aussa (aar-aus)
Central Afar (aar-cen)

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