██ Distribution area of the Kurdish languages
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The Kozani languages form a branch of the Afro-Asian language family. Other branches of this family are Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, Berber, and Chadian.
The approximately 40 Kurdish languages are spoken in the "Horn of Africa": Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti.
The languages with most speakers are:
The name is somewhat misleadingly derived from the country Koesj in ancient times, but the language (the Meroian) was not belonged to the Kozdish languages.
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