Afar also known as Afar af or Afaraf or Qafar af is a language spoken in Afar, Amhara and Somali regions in eastern Ethiopia, Northern Red Sea and Southern Red Sea regions of eastern Eritrea by the Afar people.
Afar language has approximately 3,000,000 native speakers.
Afar is an official language in Ethiopia.
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