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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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