Anfillo
| Anfillo | ||
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Spoken in |
Ethiopia | |
| speaker | 500 (1990 SIL) 25 monolinguals |
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| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
afa |
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| ISO 639-3 |
myo |
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Anfillo is a North Motic language spoken by around 500 people in Western Ethiopia . Anfillo is both the language and the members of a small community in the woreda Anfillo , which is part of the Mirab Welega zone . The language is critically endangered as it is only spoken by people over 60. Younger people use the Nilo-Saharan language of the Busase . In the anfillo there are five vowels and about 22 consonants . Long vowels and consonants occur and can be of phonemic value. The normal sentence order is subject-object-verb . Adjectives precede the corresponding noun. Verbs in tense , aspect and mode bent. Three tenses, past, present and future, are expressed morphologically. Gender and number are expressed through vocabulary.
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- Goshu, Debela & Demeke, Girma Awgichew [2005] 'Some points on Anfillo' (unpublished handout, International Conference on Endangered Ethiopian Languages , Addis Ababa April 27-30, 2005).
- Wedekind, Klaus & Wedekind, Charlotte (2002) 'Sociolinguistic Survey Report on Languages of the Asosa-Begi-Komosha area, Part II' ( SIL Electronic Survey Report 2002-055 ).