Afar is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. It is believed to have 1.5 million speakers.

Afar has the form 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

• Ethnologue on Afar
• Afar Sample at Language Museum
• The beginning of Genesis 1 in Afar at The Rosetta Project.