Iraqw language

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Iraqw
Spoken in: Tanzania 
Region: Arusha Region
Total speakers: 462,000 (2001)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Cushitic
  South
   Iraqw
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: irk

Iraqw is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Tanzania in the Arusha Region. Asa is a dialect. [1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] References

  • Ethnologue entry for Iraqw
  • Maarten, Mous. 1993. A grammar of Iraqw. Hamburg: Buske.
  • Mous, Maarten, Martha Qorro, Roland Kießling. 2002. Iraqw-English Dictionary. With an English and a Thesaurus Index. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 18.
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