Ongota (language)

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Ongota
iifa ʕongota

Spoken in

Ethiopia
speaker 10 (2007)
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Official language in -
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

afa

ISO 639-3

bxe

Ongota (foreign name Birale / Birayle ) is a dying language in southwestern Ethiopia . It is the traditional language of the Ongota , but most of these people have now adopted the ts'amakko ; In 2003 the ongota was only spoken by eight people. The classification of the Ongota is uncertain, according to Harold C. Fleming it represents a separate branch of the Afro-Asian languages, according to Savà and Tosco 2003 it is an East Cushitic language with a Nilo-Saharan substrate. Ongota has postglottalized and pharyngeal consonants; the morphology is evidently mainly agglutinating . Verbs are conjugated by prefixed pronouns: (kaata) ka-c'ak "I ate / eat / will eat" (literally: "(I) I-eat"), aspects or tenses can be formed synthetically through the position of the tone or analytically become. Nouns have several cases expressed by suffixes .

literature

  • Harold C. Fleming: Ongota Lexicon: English-Ongota . In: Mother Tongue , VII (2002), pp. 39-65.
  • Harold C. Fleming: Ongota: A Decisive Language in African Prehistory. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-447-05124-8
  • Harold C. Fleming et al. a .: Ongota (or) Birale: a moribund language of Gemu-Gofa (Ethiopia) . In: Journal of Afroasiatic Languages , Vol. 3, No. 3 (1992), pp. 181-225.
  • Ernst Kausen: The language families of the world. Part 2: Africa - Indo-Pacific - Australia - America. Buske, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87548-656-8 , pp. 460-465.
  • Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco: A sketch of Ongota, a dying language of southwest Ethiopia . In: Studies in African Linguistics . tape 29.2 , 2000, pp. 59-136 ( altervista.org [PDF]).
  • Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco: The classification of Ongota . In: Lionel Bender et al. (Ed.): Selected comparative-historical Afrasian linguistic studies. LINCOM Europe, Munich 2003.

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