Cushitic Languages Community

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The Cushitic Languages Community archives materials for languages of the Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic, spoken across northern, north-eastern, and parts of central Kenya. Cushitic-speaking communities are predominantly pastoralist, and their languages carry vast oral knowledge on livestock, ecology, astronomy, customary law, and trade.

Kenya's Cushitic languages range from large varieties (Somali, Oromo/Borana) to critically endangered languages such as Dahalo — notable for containing click consonants possibly inherited from a pre-Cushitic stratum — and Rendille, spoken by camel pastoralists in the Kaisut Desert.

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Materials deposited under CC BY 4.0 or CC BY-NC 4.0. Customary law and sacred pastoral prayer texts may carry community-specific access restrictions. For enquiries and to learn more, reach out to respective dataset/artefact issuer