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North Cushitic languages
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A diagram showing the family tree of Afro-Asiatic modern languages, branching into Libyo-Chadic, Egypto-Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic groups, with examples like Hausa, Hebrew, Somali, and Ometo listed under each branch.
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North Cushitic languages

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A diagram showing the family tree of Afro-Asiatic modern languages, branching into Libyo-Chadic, Egypto-Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic groups, with examples like Hausa, Hebrew, Somali, and Ometo listed under each branch.
Relationships among the modern Afro-Asiatic languages.

North Cushitic languages, also known as Beja, are a subdivision of the Cushitic languages, which are part of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family. These languages are spoken primarily in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Kenya. Beja itself is spoken by over a million people in southeastern Egypt and eastern Sudan. Linguists sometimes classify Beja as a separate division within Afro-Asiatic.12

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