Lugha za Kikushi ni kati ya lugha za Kiafrika-Kiasia. Zinatumika hasa katika Pembe la Afrika na nchi za jirani, kuanzia Misri na Sudan hadi Kenya na Tanzania, lakini zamani zilitumika katika maeneo makubwa kuliko leo.

Jina linatokana na Kush, mtu wa Biblia anayetajwa kama babu wa makabila ya aina hiyo.

Leo lugha kubwa zaidi katika kundi hilo ni Kioromo (35,000,000), kikifuatwa na Kisomali (18,000,000). Baadhi yake zimeshakufa.

Tanbihi

Marejeo

• Ethnologue on the Cushitic branch
• Bender, Marvin Lionel. 1975. Omotic: a new Afroasiatic language family. Southern Illinois University Museum series, number 3.
• Bender, M. Lionel. 1986. A possible Cushomotic isomorph. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 6:149–155.
• Fleming, Harold C. 1974. Omotic as an Afroasiatic family. In: Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on African linguistics (ed. by William Leben), p 81-94. African Studies Center & Department of Linguistics, UCLA.
• Roland Kießling & Maarten Mous. 2003. The Lexical Reconstruction of West-Rift Southern Cushitic. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 21
• Lamberti, Marcello. 1991. Cushitic and its classification. Anthropos 86(4/6):552-561.
• Zaborski, Andrzej. 1986. Can Omotic be reclassified as West Cushitic? In Gideon Goldenberg, ed., Ethiopian Studies: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference, pp. 525–530. Rotterdam: Balkema.
• Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (1995) Christopher Ehret

Viungo vya nje

• Encyclopaedia Britannica: Cushitic languages
• BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIGHLAND EAST CUSHITIC
• Faculty of Humanities – Leiden University

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