Agaw languages

Agaw
Central Cushitic
Geographic
distribution
Ethiopia and central Eritrea
EthnicityAgaw
Linguistic classificationAfro-Asiatic
Proto-languageProto-Agaw
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologcent2193

The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken by several groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea. They form the main substratum influence on Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages.[1]

  1. ^ Hetzron (1976, p. 5)