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..