Djibouti: Arabic & French (official)[17] + Somali & Afar. Eritrea: no official language, with two dominant language families: Semitic (Arabic, Tigrinya, Tigre and Dahlik) and Cushitic (Afar, Beja, Blin, Saho) Ethiopia: Amharic (official); Oromo, Tigrinya, Somali, Afar, and other Cushitic and Semitic languages. Somalia: Somali (official) & Arabic ("second language").[18]