Afar language

Afar
Qafaraf
Native to	Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
Region	Horn of Africa
Ethnicity	Afar
Native speakers	1,990,800 (2017)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Cushitic Saho–Afar Afar
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Djibouti  Eritrea  Ethiopia
Language codes
ISO 639-1	aa
ISO 639-2	aar
ISO 639-3	aar
Glottolog	afar1241
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The Afar language (Afar: Qafaraf) (also known as ’Afar Af, Afaraf, Qafar af) is a lowland East Cushitic language spoken by the Afar people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is thought to have 1.5 million speakers. Its most similar language is the Saho language.^[2]

1. ↑ "Afar". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
2. ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.