Strictly semantic systems of gender assignment are only found in 8 of the 84 gendered languages within the sample: Bila (Bantu), Dahalo (
Cushitic), Dime (South Omotic), Dizin (Dizoid), Kinshasa Lingala (Bantu), Koorete (Ta-Ne-Omotic), Masai (Eastern Nilotic), Mwaghavul (Chadic).
Kenya has a very diverse population that includes three of Africa's major sociolinguistic groups: Bantu (67%), Nilotic (30%), and
Cushitic (3%).
Central
Cushitic (Agaw) *kuy- means 'to emit sounds', South
Cushitic *kaw- means 'to tell', and Dahalo (Sanye) kaaTmeans 'to shout'.
Arabic is classified as a Semitic language; it belongs to the Afro-Asiatic family of languages that also includes the
Cushitic languages, Berber, and the Chadic group (Greenberg, 1970; Comrie, Matthews, & Polinsky, 1997).
The languages of Ethiopia belong to four language families: Ethio-Semitic,
Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharan.
In Ethiopian discourse, so-called racial distinctions such as Semitic, Hamitic, Negroid, and
Cushitic are manipulated to perpetuate the political objective of Habasha domination of the colonized population groups.
(35) Southern
Cushitic speakers (belonging to the Afrasan language phylum) began moving into northern Kenya (from Ethiopia) about 3000 BCE.
Claude Sumner draws upon his studies of the
Cushitic Oromo peoples of Ethiopia to develop a paradigm for understanding how proverbs speak in oral societies.
Except for recent linguistic revelations about
Cushitic languages (Greenberg 1973; Ehret 1998), which are considerably ahead of other disciplines in this regard, not enough attention has been paid to the possibility of continental African influences on the surrounding regions in the world, particularly in terms of culture and cosmology.
Until recently, the Omotic languages were considered a subgroup of the
Cushitic languages, but most linguists now consider them a separate but closely related branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages.
His works include: Afafka banda kushitigga iyo taariikhda af Soomaaliga [Cushitic languages and the history of the Somalian language] (1983); "A Lexical Aspect of Somali and Eastern
Cushitic Languages," in Puglielli A.
Obenga maintains that the Egyptian-Black African family is classified into the following subfamilies: Egyptian,
Cushitic, Tchadian, Nilo-Saharan and the Niger-Kordofanian families.
Some inconsistencies in orthography appear in this volume, such as the use of both "Kushitic" and "
Cushitic" in separate articles.
Almost 92 percent of the population belong to the Afar group, a group of
Cushitic origin.
Notwithstanding their existence as a distinct nation in the past, the Oromo share several basic cultural traits with the other
Cushitic speaking peoples in the Horn of Africa.
