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Language code: aa

Technical information about ISO 639 language code aa

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The table below provides technical details for the Afar language, designated by the aa code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

aa

Name

Official

Afar

Native

Afaraf

Family
Cushitic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern AfarCentral AfarSouthern Afar
Related languages
SahoSomaliOromoBeja
Key facts
Member of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic familyWritten with the Latin-based Qafar Feera alphabet standardized in 1976Uses subject-object-verb word order and postpositionsContrasts long and short vowels and includes rare implosive consonantsOral heritage is rich in poetic forms such as gabay and tage.
Sample phrase

Salaam, keemih?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Afar is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushitic branch. It is spoken by the Afar people who inhabit Djibouti, Eritrea, and the Afar region of Ethiopia. It is estimated that there are more than 2 million Afar speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Ethiopia

1.5M

Djibouti

350K

Eritrea

215K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Afar speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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