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Preferred term

agjArgobba  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopian Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages. Writing in the mid-1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it."

Entry terms

  • Argobba language

ISO 639-3 code

  • agj

Notation

  • agj

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URI

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

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