Afar language
GRN Language Number: #1460
ISO / Ethnologue 16th edition Language Code: aar
ISO / Ethnologue 16th edition Language Name: Afar
Other Information: Understand Tigrinya.
Other names for Afar
Adal
Afaraf
’Afar Af
Afarafa
Danakil (derogatory name)
Denkel (derogatory name)
Where Afar is spoken
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Somalia
Audio recordings available in Afar
C02110 Words of Life 1 ![]()
C02111 Words of Life 2 ![]()
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Audio/Video from other sources
Jesus Film in Afar from The Jesus Film Project
Dialects related to Afar
There are 5 similar spoken languages and dialects which share the same ISO language code as Afar:
Afar: Aussa
Afar: Baadu
Afar: Ba'adu
Afar: Central Afar
Afar: Northern Afar