Afar is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Afar people in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
There are about 1.5 million speakers of Afar, making it one of the major languages in the Horn of Africa.
Key features of Afar language:
1. Uses Latin script with some special characters
2. Has complex verb morphology
3. Contains many loanwords from Arabic
4. Has distinct dialects in different regions