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Preferred term

aasAasáx  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Asa language, Aasáx (also Asax, Asá, Aasá, Assa, Asak) was apparently a Cushitic language spoken by the Assa people in Tanzania. The language is extinct; ethnic Assa in northern Tanzania remember only a few words they overheard their elders use. Little is known of the language, and it is not clear it was entirely Cushitic, or if it retained a non-Cushitic layer from language shift. Perhaps most closely related to Kw'adza.

Entry terms

  • Asa language

ISO 639-3 code

  • aas

Notation

  • aas

In other languages

  • Aasax

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/aas

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