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Language Comparison: Afar vs Makassar
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| Aspect | Afar | Makassar |
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Family | Afro-Asiatic | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian |
Speakers | Approximately 2.7 million | Approximately 2.1 million |
Features | Spoken by the Afar people in the Horn of Africa, notable for its Cushitic roots | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. |
Countries | Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) |
Writing System | Latin script, previously used Arabic script | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) |
Tonal | No | No |
Grammatical Cases | No, but has extensive use of suffixes to indicate case functions | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Italian, and other local languages | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch |
Dialects | There are variations but not distinctly categorized into widely recognized dialects | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
Family
Afar
Afro-Asiatic
Makassar
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian
Speakers
Afar
Approximately 2.7 million
Makassar
Approximately 2.1 million
Features
Afar
Spoken by the Afar people in the Horn of Africa, notable for its Cushitic roots
Makassar
Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning.
Countries
Afar
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti
Makassar
Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas)
Writing System
Afar
Latin script, previously used Arabic script
Makassar
Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use)
Tonal
Afar
No
Makassar
No
Grammatical Cases
Afar
No, but has extensive use of suffixes to indicate case functions
Makassar
No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships
Derived From
Afar
Part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family
Makassar
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Loanwords
Afar
From Arabic, Italian, and other local languages
Makassar
From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch
Dialects
Afar
There are variations but not distinctly categorized into widely recognized dialects
Makassar
Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar
Alphabets
Afar
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Makassar
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Language Facts:
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