Complex sentence: As the Gurage people are surrounded by speakers of Cushitic languages, these languages have influenced the Gurage languages perhaps even more than they have other Ethiopian Semitic languages.
Split into simpler sentences: As the Gurage people are surrounded by speakers of other Afro-Asiatic languages belonging to the family's Cushitic branch. These languages have influenced the Gurage languages perhaps even more than they have other Ethiopian Semitic languages.