Garre language

Garre (also known as Af-Garre) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Garre people inhabiting southern Somalia, Ethiopia and northern Kenya. It belongs to the family's Cushitic branch, and has an estimated 2.5 million speakers. Garre has similarities with the Aweer language (Boni).[3][4][5] However, its speakers are physically and culturally distinct from the Aweer people.[6] Garre language is considered a Somalised dialect of Borana language.

Garre
Native toSomalia
Regionsouthern
EthnicitySomali
Native speakers
2,500,000 (2012)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3gex
Glottologgarr1259[2]

Notes
  1. Garre at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Garre". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2012. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. Ethnologue - Garre language
  5. Tosco, Mauro (1994). "The Historical Reconstruction of a Southern Somali Dialect: Proto-Karre-Boni". Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika. 15: 153–209.
  6. "Ethnologue - Aweer language". Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-10.

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