Southern Cushitic consists of four languages spoken by pastoral-type peoples, Iraqw, Burunge, Goroa and Alagwa Two other languages for which only fragmentary records survive are Aasax and Qwadza (these were almost certainly Southern Cushitic) Ehret claimed Dahalo and Ma’a (the famous mixed language) were also Southern Cushitic but this is not generally believed Aasax probably died out as a living language at least thirty years ago and today there are only ‘rememberers’ These were recently interviewed by Maarten Mous and some additional vocabulary recovered We can’t make any conclusive link with the residual Mikea vocabulary but..