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Robert Hetzron has suggested that the South Cushitic languages are a subgroup of Lowland East Cushitic. Maarten Mous, in his 24 June 2005 oration at Leiden University, has suggested more specifically that South Cushitic be linked to the Southern Lowland East Cushitic branch, together with such languages as Oromo, the Omo-Tana languages (such as Somali), and Yaaku-Dullay. Richard Hayward, on the other hand, breaks up East Cushitic into three well-supported families: ''Sidamic'' or Highlands, a diverse Lowlands family (with ''Afar'', ''Somalic'', and ''Oromic'' subgroups), and '' Dullay '' (he apparently leaves Yaaku unclassified), that he believes should be considered separately when attempting to work out the internal relationships of Cushitic. This makes for a tentative four to seven branches, depending on the status of Beja, Rift, and Yaaku. Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic Languages , then called West Cushitic , but this view has been largely abandoned; the Omotic languages are now considered an isolated branch of Afro-Asiatic. CUSHITIC PEOPLES ''Cushitic'' also is used to refer to the indigenous peoples of the Horn of Africa. ''Ethiopid'' is an equivalent, though somewhat archaic, term. |