1. Cushitic - Noun
2. Cushitic - Adjective
3. Cushitic - Proper noun
a group of languages spoken in Ethiopia and Somalia and northwestern Kenya and adjacent regions
Source: WordNetAccording to Ehret (1996), tonal languages appear in the Omotic and Chadic branches of Afroasiatic, as well as in certain Cushitic languages. Source: Internet
Cushitic speakers, partially turning away from cattle herding, domesticated teff and finger millet between 5500 and 3500 BCE. Source: Internet
Greenberg (1963) and others considered it a subgroup of Cushitic, whereas others have raised doubts about it being part of Afroasiatic at all (e.g. Theil 2006). Source: Internet
He thus divided Afroasiatic into two major branches, Omotic and Erythraean, with Erythraean consisting of three sub-branches, Cushitic, Chadic-Berber-Egyptian-Semitic-Beja, and Ongota. Source: Internet
Between three and six thousand years ago, they were joined by Cushitic -speaking people who came from the north, into whom the Khoisan peoples were slowly absorbed. Source: Internet
In other words, it would appear that the Ongota people once spoke a Nilo-Saharan language but then shifted to speaking a Cushitic language but retained some characteristics of their earlier Nilo-Saharan language. Source: Internet