Ethiopian Semitic languages (sometimes Ethiopic) is a language group which together with Old South Arabian forms the Western branch of the South Semitic languages. Old South Arabian is a geographic term for four closely related languages spoken in the southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. ... The Semitic languages are the northeastern subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages, and the only family of this group spoken in Asia. ...

• North
  • Tigrinya language
  • Tigre language
  • Ge'ez language
  • Dahlik language - "newly discovered"
• South
  • Transverse
    • Amharic language
    • Argobba language
    • Gafat language
    • Harari language
    • East Gurage languages
      • Selti language (Kistane)
      • Silt'e language (Wolane, Ulbareg, Inneqor)
      • Zay language
      • Ulbareg language
      • Inneqor language
  • Outer
    • Soddo language
    • West Gurage languages
      • Inor language (Ennemor, Endegen)
      • Mesmes language
      • Mesqan language
      • Sebat Bet Gurage language (Chaha, Ezha, Gumer, Gura, Gyeto, Muher)

Tigrigna (or ትግሪኛ) is a Semitic language spoken in Eritrea, where it is the official language, and in parts of Ethiopia and Israel. ... Tigre is a Semitic language descended from Geez and is closely related to Tigrinya and Amharic. ... Geez (also spelt Giiz, translitered Gə‘əz, and pronounced ) is an ancient language that developed in the Ethiopian Highlands of the Horn of Africa as the language of the peasantry. ... Dahlik (Dahaalik, Dahalik, Dahlak) is a newly discovered language spoken exclusively in Eritrea off of Massawa, on three islands in the Dahlak Archipelago: Dahlak Kebir, Nora and Dehil. ... Amharic (አማርኛ ’amarñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia. ... Argobba is an Ethiopic language that was spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa. ... The Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. ... aman be dejqho ... ... The Silte language (Selti, Silti; ISO/DIS 639-3: xst) is an South Semitic (East Gurage) language of Ethiopia, with some 830,000 speakers (1998 census), spoken in the region about 150 km south of Addis Abeba. ... The Zay language is one of the Ethiopic languages. ... Soddo (autonym kəstane Christian; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources, after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by about 300,000 people in southeastern Ethiopia. ... ... Sebat Bet Gurage (also called Central West Gurage, West Gurage, Chaha, Ezha, Gumer, Gura, Gyeto, Muher) is a South Semitic language of Ethiopia (ISO/DIS 639-3: sgw). ...

See also

• Languages of Ethiopia