Argobba language
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| Argobba | ||
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Total speakers: | 10,860 (1998) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Ethiopian South Transversal Amharic-Argobba Argobba |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | agj | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopian Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages. Writing in the mid-1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it."[1]
The language is spoken in a number of pockets and has at least four regional variations (dialects) in Harar (extinct), Aliyu Amba, Shewa Robit and Shonke.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Ullendorff, Edward (1965) The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People, second edition (London: Oxford University Press), pp. 131f. ISBN 0-19-285061-X.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue entry for Argobba
- Cohen, Marcel (1931) Études d'éthiopien méridional (Collection d'ouvrages orientaux). Paris: Geuthner.
- Cohen, Marcel (1939) Nouvelles Études d'éthiopien méridional Paris: Ancienne Honoré Champion.
- Leslau, Wolf (1997) Ethiopic Documents: Argobba. Grammar and dictionary Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-03955-8.
- Zelealem Leyew and Ralph Siebert (1994) Survey on Least Known Languages of Ethiopia - Argobba. S.L.L.E. Linguistic Reports Addis Ababa: S.I.L./Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.
- Zalealem Leyew, Ralph Siebert (2002), Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Argobba Language of Ethiopia SIL Electronic Survey Reports, SILESR 2002-026 (PDF)
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