Horn of Africa complex pattern of interrelationships among the various groups. According to "Ethnologue", there are 10 individual languages spoken in Djibouti, 14 in Eritrea, 90 in Ethiopia, and 15 in Somalia. Most people in the Horn speak Afroasiatic languages of the Cushitic or Semitic branches. The former includes Oromo, spoken by the Oromo people in Ethiopia, and Somali, spoken by the Somali people in Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia; the latter includes Amharic, spoken by the Amhara people of Ethiopia, and Tigrinya spoken by the Tigrayan people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Other Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic
Gates of horn and ivory that of horn as the passageway for true shadows and that of ivory as that through which the Manes in the underworld send false dreams up to the living. Through the latter gate Virgil makes his hero Aeneas, accompanied by the Cumaean Sibyl, return from his visit to the underworld, where he has met, among others, his dead father Anchises: Two gates the silent house of Sleep adorn; <br>Of polish'd ivory this, that of transparent horn: <br>True visions thro' transparent horn arise; <br>Thro' polish'd ivory pass deluding lies. <br>Of various things discoursing as he pass'd, <br>Anchises hither bends his steps