The Afar of Ethiopia, numbering approximately 2,265,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Cushitic ethnic group indigenous to the Horn of Africa, living primarily in Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Eritrea. They speak the Afar language, an East Cushitic language within the Afroasiatic family, and are predominantly Sunni Muslim They are an Indigenous people, with Afar as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Afar-Saho people cluster of the Horn of Africa Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Afar.