Editing Afar language (section)

==Official status==
In Djibouti, Afar is a recognized national language.<ref name="Cwfbdj">{{cite web|title=Djibouti|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/djibouti/|work=The World Factbook|publisher=CIA|access-date=31 August 2014|archive-date=25 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525091953/https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/djibouti/|url-status=live}}</ref> It is also one of the broadcasting languages of the [[Radio Television of Djibouti]] public network.

In Eritrea, Afar is recognized as one of nine national languages which formally enjoy equal status although [[Tigrinya language|Tigrinya]] and [[Arabic]] are by far of greatest significance in official usage. There are daily broadcasts on the national radio and a translated version of the Eritrean constitution. In education, however, Afar speakers prefer Arabic – which many of them speak as a second language – as the language of instruction.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Marie-Claude |last=Simeone-Senelle |url=http://cy.revues.org/document39.html |title=Les langues en Erythrée |journal=Chroniques Yeménites 8, 2000 |date=2000 |volume=8 |issue=8 |publisher=Cy.revues.org |doi=10.4000/cy.39 |language=fr |access-date=6 April 2010 |archive-date=6 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106012237/http://cy.revues.org/document39.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the Afar Region of Ethiopia, Afar is also recognized as an official working language.<ref name="Llicuv">{{cite book|editor=Kizitus Mpoche|editor2=Tennu Mbuh|title=Language, literature, and identity|year=2006|publisher=Cuvillier|isbn=3-86537-839-0|pages=163–164|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNEiAQAAMAAJ|access-date=14 October 2015|archive-date=22 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522132524/https://books.google.com/books?id=PNEiAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> Since 2020, Afar is one of the five official working languages of Ethiopia.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Getachew |first=Samuel |title=Ethiopia is adding four more official languages to Amharic as political instability mounts |url=https://qz.com/africa/1812085/ethiopia-adds-afan-oromo-somali-afar-tigrigna-languages-to-amharic/ |access-date=12 April 2022 |website=Quartz |date=3 March 2020 |language=en |archive-date=12 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412014530/https://qz.com/africa/1812085/ethiopia-adds-afan-oromo-somali-afar-tigrigna-languages-to-amharic/ |url-status=live }}</ref>