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Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual among the world's languages in using all four airstream mechanisms found in human language: clicks, implosives, ejectives, and pulmonic consonants.
While the language is known primarily as “Dahalo” to linguists, the term itself is an exonym supposedly used by Aweer speakers that itself essentially means “stupid” or “worthless.”[2] The speakers themselves refer to the language as numma guhooni.
^Dahalo at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^STILES, D. (1982). A HISTORY OF THE HUNTING PEOPLES OF THE NORTHERN EAST AFRICA COAST: Ecological and Socio-Economic Considerations. Paideuma, 28, 165-174. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/41409881
Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual...
Dahalo are thought to have retained clicks from an earlier language when they shifted to speaking a Cushitic language; if so, the pre-Dahalolanguage...
Southern West Rift language. Aasax and Kw'adza are poorly attested and, like Dahalo, maybe the result language shift from non-Cushitic languages. Several additional...
or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely...
the neighboring speakers of the Dahalolanguage, there is no concrete linguistic evidence of a shift from a prior language; it is best said that the possibility...
Cushitic languages spoken by former hunter-gatherers in Kenya: Aweer languageDahalolanguage Waata language The "Sanye" in Greenberg is Dahalo. This disambiguation...
South Cushitic Maʼa (Bantu hybrid & partially a planned language, difficult to classify) Dahalo (divergent; possibly not Southern Cushitic) Rift East Cushitic...
hunter-gatherers. They share the name Sanye with the neighboring Dahalo. The current language of the Waata may be a dialect of Orma or otherwise Southern Oromo...
have an implosive b alongside a series of allophonically ejective stops. Dahalo of Kenya, has ejectives, implosives, and click consonants. Non-contrastively...
and the Nguni languages of the Bantu family utilize all four, – pulmonic, click, implosive, and ejective, – as does the Dahalolanguage of Kenya. Most...
vocabulary, suggesting language shift from an indigenous language like that seen in Dahalo. Comparison of numerals in individual languages: List of Proto-Kuliak...
Lowland East Cushitic is a group of roughly two dozen diverse languages of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. Its largest representatives...
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its...
It is a rare sound, found in Dahalo, a Cushitic language of Kenya, and in Hadza, a language isolate of Tanzania. In Dahalo, /c͜𝼆ʼ/ contrasts with alveolar...
Sandawe and Hadza are language isolates spoken in Tanzania Dahalo is a Cushitic language of Kenya Xhosa and Yeyi are Bantu languages, from the two geographic...
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of...
these languages also have lateral affricates. Some languages have palatal or velar voiceless lateral fricatives or affricates, such as Dahalo and Zulu...
"Phonetic structures of Dahalo", in Maddieson, Ian (ed.), UCLA working papers in phonetics: Fieldwork studies of targeted languages, vol. 84, Los Angeles:...
nc. The prenasalized clicks are written ngc and nkc. The Cushitic languageDahalo has four clicks, all of them nasalized: [ᵑ̊ʇ, ᵑʇ, ᵑ̊ʇʷ, ᵑʇʷ]. Dental...
consonants, a rare feature shared with only two other languages of East Africa – Hadza and Dahalo, had been the basis of its classification as a member...
Somali, Afar, Dahalo and Iraqw) branches of the Afroasiatic language family the Caucasus, in the Northwest, and Northeast Caucasian language families British...
phoneme in any language. However, it exists as the intervocalic voiced allophone of the otherwise voiceless epiglottal stop /ʡ/ of Dahalo and perhaps of...
structures of Dahalo". UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics. 84: Fieldwork studies of targeted languages. Los Angeles: UCLA: 25–65. List of languages with [ʡ]...
influence and adopted the Afro-Asiatic languages of the Eastern and Southern Cushitic peoples who moved into the area. Dahalo has consequently retained some of...
found in every language which has clicks as part of its regular sound inventory. This includes Damin, which has only nasal clicks, and Dahalo, which has only...
(June 1993). "Phonetic Structures of Dahalo". Working Papers in Phonetics: Fieldwork Studies of Targeted Languages. 84. UCLA: 25–66 – via eScholarship...
"Phonetic structures of Dahalo", in Maddieson, Ian (ed.), UCLA working papers in phonetics: Fieldwork studies of targeted languages, vol. 84, Los Angeles:...
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