What is Highland East Cushitic languages?
{{Infobox language family |name=Highland East Cushitic |altname=Sidamic |region=[[Ethiopia]] |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=[[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]] |child1=[[Burji language|Burji]] |child2=Sidamic proper |glotto=high1285 |glottorefname=Highland East Cushitic }} The '''Highland East Cushitic''', or '''Sidamic''', languages are a branch of [[Cushitic languages]]. They are spoken in [[Ethiopia]]. The most spoken language in the branch is [[Sidamo language|Sidamo]]. It has around 3 million speakers. ==Languages== *[[Burji language|Burji]] (divergent) *Sidamic proper **[[Sidamo language|Sidamo]] **[[Gedeo language|Gedeo]] **[[Hadiyya language|Hadiyya]]–[[Libido language|Libido]] **[[Kambaata language|Kambaata]]–[[Alaba-K'abeena language|Alaba]] ==References== *Hudson, Grover. 1981. The Highland East Cushitic family vine. ''Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika'' 3.97-124. *Hudson, Grover. 1988. The Highland Cushitic hypothesis. ''Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies'' (Addis Ababa, 1984), Taddese Beyene, ed., 693-696. Birmingham, England: Elm Press. *Hudson, Grover. 1989. ''Highland East Cushitic Dictionary'' (Kuschitische Sprachstudien 7). Hamburg: Buske. *Hudson, Grover. 2005. Highland East Cushitic languages, ''Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics'', 2nd ed., Keith Brown, ed., 294-298. Elsevier: Oxford. *Hudson, Grover. 2007a. Highland East Cushitic morphology, ''Morphologies of Asian and African Languages'', vol. 1, [[Alan S. Kaye]], ed., 529-545. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns. *Sasse, Hans-Jürgen. 1979. The consonant phonemes of Proto-East-Cushitic (PEC): A first approximation. Malibu: Undena Publications. *Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses. ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'' 14: 131-76. *Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. ''Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies''. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 52. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. {{Cus