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Ongota (also known as Birale, Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia. UNESCO reported in 2012 that out of a total ethnic population of 115, only 12 elderly native speakers remained, the rest of their small village on the west bank of the Weito River having adopted the Tsamai language instead.[1] The default word order is subject–object–verb. The classification of the language is obscure (Sava & Tosco 2015).
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Ongota (also known as Birale, Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia. UNESCO reported in 2012 that out of a total ethnic population of...
(2003), namely that Ongota is an East Cushitic language with a Nilo-Saharan substratum. In other words, it would appear that the Ongota people once spoke...
majority of scholars: Linguist H. Fleming proposed that the near-extinct Ongotalanguage is a separate branch of Afroasiatic; however, this is only one of several...
the Lowland languages are Girirra and perhaps the endangered Boon language. Savà and Tosco (2003) believe Ongota is an East Cushitic language with a Nilo-Saharan...
extinct, victims of language death, as Weyto, Gafat, and Mesmes have and Ongota very soon will. The factors that contribute to language death are complex...
man. South African Journal of African Languages, 35(1), 105-111. Savà, G., & Tosco, M. (2015). The Ongotalanguage–and two ways of looking at the marginal...
"Afroasiatic", in Heine & Nurse, 2000, African Languages Savà, Graziano; Tosco, Mauro (2003). "The classification of Ongota". In Bender, M. Lionel; et al. (eds.)...
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