Cushitic-speaking peoples, the Glossary
Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively.[1]
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62 relations: Afar people, Agaw people, Alagwa people, Arbore people, Ariaal people, Aweer people, Awi people, Bantu expansion, Barento, Beja language, Beja people, Beta Israel, Bilen people, Blemmyes, Boorana, Burji language, Burunge people, Bussa language, Christianity, Cushitic languages, Daasanach people, Dirasha language, Donald N. Levine, East Africa, Egypt, El Molo people, Ethiopian Highlands, Garre, Gedeo people, Gorowa people, Hadiya people, Halaba people, Haymanot, Horn of Africa, Iraqw people, Irob people, Islam, Kambaata people, Khoekhoe, Khoekhoe language, Konso people, Medjay, Nile, Nubian languages, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Orma (clan), Oromo people, P'ent'ay, Qemant people, Rendille people, ... Expand index (12 more) »
Afar people
The Afar (Qafár), also known as the Danakil, Adali and Odali, are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Horn of Africa.
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Agaw people
The Agaw or Agew (Agäw, modern Agew) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the northern highlands of Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea.
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Alagwa people
The Alagwa (Swahili: Waasi; Rangi: Vaasi; Iraqw: Alawa) are a Cushitic ethnic group mostly based in the Kondoa District (Alagwa: Ulàa) of the Dodoma Region in central Tanzania, an area well known for rock art.
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Arbore people
The Arbore are an ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia, near Lake Chew Bahir.
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Ariaal people
The Ariaal are northern Kenyan pastoralists.
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Aweer people
The Aweer (also known as the Boni and Sanye) are a Cushitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting the Coast Province in southeastern Kenya.
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Awi people
The Awi people are an ethnic group in Ethiopia and are one of the Agaw peoples.
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Bantu expansion
The Bantu expansion was a major series of migrations of the original Proto-Bantu-speaking group, which spread from an original nucleus around West-Central Africa.
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Barento
Barento (Oromo: Bareentoo) is one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people, a Cushitic ethnic group.
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Beja language
Beja (Bidhaawyeet or Tubdhaawi) is an Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch spoken on the western coast of the Red Sea by the Beja people.
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Beja people
The Beja people (البجا, Oobja, በጃ) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Eastern Desert, inhabiting a coastal area from southeastern Egypt through eastern Sudan and into northwestern Eritrea.
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Beta Israel
The Beta Israel, or Ethiopian Jews, are an African community of the Jewish diaspora.
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Bilen people
The Bilen (also variously transcribed as Blin, and also formerly known as the Bogo, Bogos or Northern Agaw) are a Cushitic ethnic group in Eritrea.
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Blemmyes
The Blemmyes (Βλέμμυες or Βλέμυες, Blémues, Latin: Blemmyae) were an Eastern Desert people who appeared in written sources from the 7th century BC until the 8th century AD.
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Boorana
The Boorana (also known as Borana) are one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people.
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Burji language
Burji language (alternate names: Bembala, Bambala, Daashi) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Burji people who reside in Ethiopia south of Lake Chamo.
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Burunge people
The Burunge or Burungi (Waburungi, in Swahili) are a Cushitic ethnic group and among Iraqhw Communities based in the Chemba District of Dodoma Region in central Tanzania.
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Bussa language
Bussa, or Mossiya, is a Cushitic language spoken in the Dirashe special woreda of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region located in southern Ethiopia.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Cushitic languages
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Daasanach people
The Daasanach (also known as the Marille or Geleba) are an ethnic group inhabiting parts of Ethiopia, Kenya, and South Sudan.
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Dirasha language
Dirasha (also known as Ghidole, Diraasha, Dirayta, Gidole, Gardulla, Dhirasha) is a member of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.
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Donald N. Levine
Donald Nathan Levine (June 16, 1931 – April 4, 2015) was an American sociologist, educator, social theorist and writer at the University of Chicago, where he served as Dean of the College.
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East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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El Molo people
The El Molo, also known as Elmolo, Dehes, Fura-Pawa and Ldes, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the northern Eastern Province of Kenya.
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Ethiopian Highlands
The Ethiopian Highlands (also called the Abyssinian Highlands) is a rugged mass of mountains in Ethiopia in Northeast Africa.
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Garre
The Garre (also Gurreh, Karre, or Binukaaf, Somali: Reer Garre, Arabic: بنو كاف, romanized: Banī kāf) are a prominent Somali clan that traces its lineage back to Samaale, who is believed to have originated from the Arabian Peninsula through Aqiil Abu Talib.
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Gedeo people
The Gedeo are an ethnic group in southern Ethiopia.
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Gorowa people
The Gorowa, also known as Fyomi are a Cushitic ethnic group and Iraqw community inhabiting the Manyara and Dodoma regions in Tanzania.
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Hadiya people
Hadiya (Amharic: ሐድያ), also spelled as Hadiyya, is an ethnic group native to Ethiopia in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region who speak the Hadiyyisa language.
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Halaba people
The Halaba people (or Alaba) are an ethnic group inhabiting the central Ethiopian highlands.
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Haymanot
Haymanot (ሃይማኖት) is the branch of Judaism which is practiced by the Beta Israel, also known as Ethiopian Jews.
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Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.
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Iraqw people
The Iraqw People are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the northern Tanzanian regions.
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Irob people
The Irob people (Ge'ez: ኢሮብ ʾirōb, also spelled Erob) are an ethnic group who live in a predominantly highland, mountainous area by the same name in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Kambaata people
Kambaata people also spelt as Kambata or Kembata (Amharic: ከምባታ) are a Cushitic ethnic group that inhabits the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia.
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Khoekhoe
Khoekhoe (/ˈkɔɪkɔɪ/ ''KOY-koy'') (or Khoikhoi in former orthography) are the traditionally nomadic pastoralist indigenous population of South Africa.
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Khoekhoe language
Khoekhoe (Khoekhoegowab), also known by the ethnic terms Nama (Namagowab), Damara (ǂNūkhoegowab), or Nama/Damara and formerly as Hottentot, is the most widespread of the non-Bantu languages of Southern Africa that make heavy use of click consonants and therefore were formerly classified as Khoisan, a grouping now recognized as obsolete.
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Konso people
The Konso, also known as the Xonsita, are a Lowland East Cushitic-speaking ethnic group primarily inhabiting south-western Ethiopia.
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Medjay
Medjay (also Medjai, Mazoi, Madjai, Mejay, Egyptian mḏꜣ.j, a nisba of mḏꜣ) was a demonym used in various ways throughout ancient Egyptian history to refer initially to a nomadic group from Nubia and later as a generic term for desert-ranger police.
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Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
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Nubian languages
The Nubian languages are a group of related languages spoken by the Nubians.
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Oriental Orthodox Churches
The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, with approximately 50 million members worldwide.
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Orma (clan)
The Orma is one of the Oromo clans in the Horn of Africa who predominantly live in Tana River County in northern Kenya and in southern Ethiopia.
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Oromo people
The Oromo people (pron. Oromo: Oromoo) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya.
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P'ent'ay
P'ent'ay (from Ge'ez: ጴንጤ) is an originally Amharic–Tigrinya language term for Pentecostal Christians.
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Qemant people
The Qemant (also known as western Agaws) are a small Cushitic ethnic group in northwestern Ethiopia, specifically in Gondar, Amhara Region.
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Rendille people
The Rendille (also known as Rendille, Reendile, Rendili, Randali, Randile, and Randille) are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Eastern Province of Kenya.
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Saho people
The Saho are a Cushitic ethnic group who inhabit large sections of Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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Sidama people
The Sidama (ሲዳማ) are an ethnic group traditionally inhabiting the Sidama Region, formerly part of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia.
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Somali people
The Somali people (Soomaalida, Osmanya: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒆𐒖, Wadaad) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Horn of Africa who share a common ancestry, culture and history.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
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Tunni
The Tunni (Somali: Tunni) are a Somali clan that make up part of the wider Digil-Rahanweyn branch.
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Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt
The Twelfth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (Dynasty XII) is a series of rulers reigning from 1991–1802 BC (190 years), at what is often considered to be the apex of the Middle Kingdom (Dynasties XI–XIV).
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Waaqeffanna
Waaqeffanna is religion indigenous to the Oromo people in the Horn of Africa.
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Waata
The Waata (Waat, Watha), or Sanye, are an Oromo-speaking people of Kenya and former hunter-gatherers.
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Xamir people
The Xamir people (also Ximre or Kamyr) are an ethnic group in Ethiopia and are one of the Agaw peoples.
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Yaaku language
Yaaku (also known as Mukogodo, Mogogodo, Mukoquodo, Siegu, Yaakua, Ndorobo) is an endangered Afroasiatic language of the Cushitic branch, spoken in Kenya.
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Yaaku people
The Yaaku are a people who are said to have lived in regions of southern Ethiopia and central Kenya, possibly through to the 18th century.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic-speaking_peoples
Also known as Cushite people, Cushitic people, Cushitic peoples, Cushitic speaking peoples.
, Saho people, Sidama people, Somali people, Sudan, Sunni Islam, Tunni, Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt, Waaqeffanna, Waata, Xamir people, Yaaku language, Yaaku people.