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Cushitic-speaking peoples are the ethnolinguistic groups who speak Cushitic languages natively. Today, the Cushitic languages are spoken as a mother tongue primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north and south in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, and Tanzania.
Kenyan languages have been classified into three groups: Cushitic, Nilotic and Bantu. The Cushitic is part of the Afro-Asiatic family, the Nilotic is part of the Nilo-Saharan family, and...
1 gru 2021 · This chapter examines the migration and settlement of Cushites who occupy vast parts of northern and parts of southern Kenya. Cushites belong to the cattle complex corridor of Africa, which stretches from Somalia in the East to Senegal in the West.
18 kwi 2018 · The Cushitic people are presently living in the north-eastern and the semi-arid eastern regions of Kenya. They have inhabited a good portion of land that stretches to the north side of Kenya and goes on form the east of the Lake Turkana. The Cushites include the Rendile, Somali, Oromo and the Borana tribes.
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania.
In Kenya, Cushitic language speakers are divided into the Eastern and Southern Group. Cushites form a significant minority of Kenya’s population. They speak Afro-Asiatic languages, and originally came from Ethiopia and Somalia in north-east Africa.
Nowadays, Cushitic-speaking peoples are dispersed over a large portion of the arid north and northeast of Kenya, and also comprise the majority in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Despite covering about 25% of Kenya land surface, Cushites presently account for only 3-4% of the total population.
