Music from Sudan
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Do you guys remember this one? 
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Arabic is language of queen the holy book I wonder why we weren't arabized being so close what a shame
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They've lost the cushitic language from the kerma kingdom, but the nubian nilo-saharan language is still being used by few.
I think the relationship with other cultures, their proximity to the north, and intermarrying with arabs and north africans through the years have changed their language.
You see the same thing with the habesha, but not the somalis, because we've had a closed culture to outsiders and a strict social structure. In the past, the habeshas has been intermarrying with south arabians and that's why Amharic and Tigrinya are semetic languages today.
Amharic is more like a semetic language with some cushitic elements. While the Tigrinya language resmbles more the other semetic languages because it doesn't have any cushitic elements. And you can clearly see that people that speak Tigrinya have more middle-eastern admixture than the average amahric habesha. Not very much, but it is a difference. You might know more about this than me.
Clearly a case where genetics and language correlates. I'm not versed in lingustics or genetics, just my theory based on limited knowledge.
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