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Afar Language

The language Afar is represented by the language code "AAR" which belongs to language family.

  • Afar, Amhara, and Somali regions: eastern lowlands. Users: 1,862,800 in Ethiopia, all users. L1 users: 1,840,000 in Ethiopia (2018). L2 users: 22,800. 906,000 monolinguals (1994 census). Total users in all countries: 2,563,800 (as L1: 2,541,000; as L2: 22,800). Status: 2 (Provincial). De facto language of provincial identity in Afar Region. Alternate Names: Adal, Afaraf, Affar, Affarigna, Qafar, Qafaraf, ʿAfár af, “Danakil” (pej.), “Denkel” (pej.). Autonym: Qafar af. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Saho-Afar.

Data domain

So far, the language Afar has a 5 domain as part of the language resource collected by Ethiopian language resource. In addition to this, the language has a total of 598 documents from this domain.

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Data source

So far, the language Afar a language resource are collected from different sources by Ethiopian language resource.

The detail source statistical information is presented as follows;