
Afar is a Lowland East Cushitic languages language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is believed to have 1.5 million speakers, the Afari. 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. ==See also== *Afar ==Bibliography== *Bliese, Loren F. (1976) 'Afar', in Bender, Lionel M. (ed.) ''The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia''. Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 133–164. *Bliese, Loren F. (1981) ''A generative grammar of Afar'' (Summer Institute of Linguistics publications in linguistics vol. 65). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics / Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington. *Colby, J.G. (1970) 'Notes on the northern dialect of the 'Afar language', ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'', 8, 1, 1–8. *Morin, Didier (1997) ''Poésie traditionnelle des Afars'' (Langues et cultures africaines, 21 / SELAF vol. 363). Paris/Louvain: Peeters. *Voigt, Rainer M. (1975) 'Bibliographie des Saho-Afar', ''Africana Marburgensia'', vol. 8, 53–63. ==External links== *[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=AFR Ethnologue on Afar] *[http://www.language-museum.com/a/afar.php Afar Sample at Language Museum] *[http://rosettaproject.org/work/rosetta/1000%20Language%20Database/AFRICA/ETHIOPIA/AFAR/gen.afar.f.1.1.full.gif The beginning of Genesis 1 in Afar] at The Rosetta Project. East Cushitic languages Languages of Eritrea Languages of Ethiopia
==Merge this with Afar?== What do others think of the potential for expanding either this article or the Afar article? I'm wondering if they should be merged. -- User:Gyrofrog User_talk:Gyrofrog 20:55, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I'd say no. This one certainly has potential, if only because it is a language spoken by one and a half million people across three countries. It's also interesting because it is (part of) a dialect continuum and because it has been linked with Beja language, thought to constitute an Afro-Asiatic branch on its own. Above all, it has potential because languages are inherently encyclopedic. :Afar looks more like a geographic article at present; but it, too has potential — for example, there is virtually nothing on the Afar people themselves yet. We might even need Afar (people) in the end... — User:Mark Dingemanse User Talk:Mark Dingemanse 21:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::I hope we would end up with three good-sized articles! But somehow I thought, in their present state, the two existing articles could work as one. Afar language didn't have a link to Afar (not that there's much to see, yet). I added the link but I guess the merge idea stuck in my mind anyway. -- User:Gyrofrog User_talk:Gyrofrog 00:02, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::The main problem is the disambiguation. Afar is an ethnic region of Ethiopia. It is also a language, not only spoken in the Afar region but also beyond it in two other countries. And then there is the Afar people, also not confined to the Afar region of Ethiopia alone. If we'd merge something, Afar people+Afar language might be a better idea. — User:Mark Dingemanse User Talk:Mark Dingemanse 07:42, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Afar is a Lowland East Cushitic languages language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is believed to have 1.5 million speakers, the Afari. 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. ==See also== *Afar ==Bibliography== *Bliese, Loren F. (1976) 'Afar', in Bender, Lionel M. (ed.) ''The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia''. Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 133–164. *Bliese, Loren F. (1981) ''A generative grammar of Afar'' (Summer Institute of Linguistics publications in linguistics vol. 65). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics / Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington. *Colby, J.G. (1970) 'Notes on the northern dialect of the 'Afar language', ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'', 8, 1, 1–8. *Morin, Didier (1997) ''Poésie traditionnelle des Afars'' (Langues et cultures africaines, 21 / SELAF vol. 363). Paris/Louvain: Peeters. *Voigt, Rainer M. (1975) 'Bibliographie des Saho-Afar', ''Africana Marburgensia'', vol. 8, 53–63. ==External links== *[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=AFR Ethnologue on Afar] *[http://www.language-museum.com/a/afar.php Afar Sample at Language Museum] *[http://rosettaproject.org/work/rosetta/1000%20Language%20Database/AFRICA/ETHIOPIA/AFAR/gen.afar.f.1.1.full.gif The beginning of Genesis 1 in Afar] at The Rosetta Project. East Cushitic languages Languages of Eritrea Languages of Ethiopia
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==Merge this with Afar?== What do others think of the potential for expanding either this article or the Afar article? I'm wondering if they should be merged. -- User:Gyrofrog User_talk:Gyrofrog 20:55, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I'd say no. This one certainly has potential, if only because it is a language spoken by one and a half million people across three countries. It's also interesting because it is (part of) a dialect continuum and because it has been linked with Beja language, thought to constitute an Afro-Asiatic branch on its own. Above all, it has potential because languages are inherently encyclopedic. :Afar looks more like a geographic article at present; but it, too has potential — for example, there is virtually nothing on the Afar people themselves yet. We might even need Afar (people) in the end... — User:Mark Dingemanse User Talk:Mark Dingemanse 21:41, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::I hope we would end up with three good-sized articles! But somehow I thought, in their present state, the two existing articles could work as one. Afar language didn't have a link to Afar (not that there's much to see, yet). I added the link but I guess the merge idea stuck in my mind anyway. -- User:Gyrofrog User_talk:Gyrofrog 00:02, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::The main problem is the disambiguation. Afar is an ethnic region of Ethiopia. It is also a language, not only spoken in the Afar region but also beyond it in two other countries. And then there is the Afar people, also not confined to the Afar region of Ethiopia alone. If we'd merge something, Afar people+Afar language might be a better idea. — User:Mark Dingemanse User Talk:Mark Dingemanse 07:42, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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