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    UNIT THREE

    PEOPLES, STATES AND HISTORICAL


    PROCESSES IN ETHIOPIA AND THE HORN TO
    THE END OF THE 13TH CENTURY
    3.1. Languages, Religions and Peoples of Ethiopia and the
    Horn
    3.1.1. Languages Families
     Ethiopia is perhaps the only country in Africa to have its own written
    alphabet, the Ethiopic script.
     Languages which belong to the same group share certain basic vocabulary
    that trace back to a common origin. Linguists refer to this shared origin as
    the proto-language or the ancestral language.
     The peoples of Africa in general speak languages that belong to four super-
    families or proto-languages namely
     Afro-Asiatic, Nilo-Saharan, Niger-Congo and Khoisan.
     Afro-Asiatic and Nilo-Saharan are spoken in the Ethiopian region and the
    Horn of Africa. The Afro-Asiatic is the most important in terms of
    geographical distribution. It is spoken in northern, central, northeastern
    and the Horn of Africa.
     The majority of the peoples of Ethiopia and the Horn are speakers of the
    Cushitic family.
     Among the Cushitic branches, the most diversified and the largest in the
    region is the East Cushitic.
     The Omotic family is spoken mainly by the peoples living in the Omo valley
    in Southern and South western Ethiopia. This language family is spoken
    only in Ethiopia.
     The Semitic languages of Ethiopia and the Horn are generally known as
    Ethio- Semitic.
     Tigrigna is spoken in Tigray as well as in Eritrea.
     The languages of the Nilo-Saharan super-family are also spoken in Ethiopia.
    The majority of the speakers of these languages live in the present Regional
    States of Beni-Shangul Gumuz and Gambella.

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