Afar people

Horner ethnic group who are descendants of Puntites
Intangible ethnic_group Q211720
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Afar people

Summary

Afar people is an ethnic group[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,722 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Afar was Afar people's native language[3].
  • Afar people's religion is recorded as Sunni Islam[4].
  • Afar people is in the country of Djibouti[5].
  • Afar people is in the country of Eritrea[6].
  • Afar people is in the country of Ethiopia[7].
  • Afar people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[8].
  • Afar people is a type of Horner[9].
  • Afar people is part of Cushitic peoples[10].
  • Afar people's Commons category is recorded as Afar people[11].
  • Afar people's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Afar people[12].
  • Afar people has a population of {'amount': '+5000000'}[13].
  • Afar people's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • Afar people's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • Afar people's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • Afar people's replaces is recorded as ancient Puntite[17].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Other[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ddee14f9-b4a7-4096-bca0-5e15fa966d80[19]

Body

Definition and Type

Afar people's instance of is recorded as ethnic group[8]. It is a type of Horner[9].

Use and Application

Afar people is part of Cushitic peoples[10].

Why It Matters

Afar people ranks in the top 7% of ethnic_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,722 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of ethnic group
    Country Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia
    Part of Cushitic peoples
    Native language Afar
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007293838205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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