Taita Cushitic languages

Taita Cushitic
Taita Cushitic
Extinct	19th century?
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic South Rift? Taita Cushitic; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	tait1247

Taita Cushitic is an extinct pair of South Cushitic languages, spoken by Cushitic peoples inhabiting the Taita Hills of Kenya, before they were assimilated into the Bantu population after the Bantu Migration into East Africa. Evidence for the languages is primarily South Cushitic loanwords in the Bantu languages Dawida and Saghala (which are sometimes grouped together as the Taita language), as well as oral traditions of the Dawida and Saghala.

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