Talk:Cushite people

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There's a couple of reasons why "Cushite" is not the same as "Kushitic" or those relating to the ancient Kushite Empire --
 * 1. Different resources already refer to the Cushite people as being a cultural group.
 * Take this article from an Ethiopian news service written by Dr. Wolassa L. Kumo or the fact that Christian Evangelists use Cushite as as a cultural marker for different cultures in Africa or this resource which refers to Somalis as a member of a "wide family of peoples called Eastern Cushites."
 * 2. Wikipedia already refers to "Cushitic peoples" when speaking about ethnic groups -- for example the page for the Oromo people includes "...[the] Sidama and other Cushitic peoples."

--Mychemicalromanceisrealemo (talk) 00:47, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

The modern allusion to "Cushitic" peoples is to speakers of the Cushitic languages. That is, to Cushitic-speaking peoples. This is why the second link above explains that-- "From a broader cultural-linguistic perspective, the Cushite family belongs to a vast stock of languages and peoples considered Afro-Asiatic". This is also why Afro-Asiatic peoples redirects to Afroasiatic languages since it is likewise an allusion to Afroasiatic-speaking peoples. Soupforone (talk) 02:27, 23 June 2017 (UTC)