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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...
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.
Learn about the Cushitic language speakers in Kenya, their origins, distribution and lifestyle. Cushites include Somali, Rendille, Borana and Oromo tribes, and are mainly nomadic pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid regions.
18 kwi 2018 · Learn about the Cushites, one of the oldest and diverse communities in Kenya, who migrated from Ethiopia and South Africa. Discover their traditions, lifestyle, food, language and relationship with other tribes.
Kenya’s largest indigenous communities fit into three distinct ethnic tribal groups, Bantu, Cushite and Nilote. Some speak the official Kenyan languages of English and Swahili while still retain their indigenous languages.
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.
The Eastern Cushites include the Oromo and the Somali. After the Northern Frontier District (North Eastern Province) was handed over to Kenyan nationalists at the end of British colonial rule in Kenya, Somalis in the region fought the Shifta War against Kenyan troops to join