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Afar people

Афар · Q211720

language area per Glottologcensus counts
1,276,867
Ethiopia, census 2007 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Ethiopia: 1,276,867 people in the 2007 census.

Main language: Afar. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Ethiopia2007 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Affar» · [1]
1,276,867

Languages and their lineage

Afar

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Cushiticcush1243
  3. East Cushiticeast2699
  4. Lowland East Cushiticlowl1267
  5. Saho-Afarsaho1245
  6. Afarafar1241

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansTuareg AmazighsEmiratisBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Ethiopia, Census - de facto - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)