| covers the "Central & East Cushitic" grouping, within the "Afro-Asiatic" or "Hamito-Semitic" intercontinental affinity (and part of the former "wider Cushitic" hypothesis within that inter-continental affinity); comprising 7 sets of languages (= 25 outer languages) spoken by communities in Northeast and East Africa, from the southeastern Sahara through the Horn of Africa to the East African coast: 14-A BILIN+ AWNGI 14-B SAHO+ 'AFAR 14-C SIDAAMO+ BURJI 14-D WAZE+ TSAMAKULA 14-E YAAKU 14-F BORENA+ DIRASHAT 14-G SOOMAALI+ DASENACH |