Agaw languages

The Agaw, or Central Cushitic, languages are a small branch of Cushitic languages. They are spoken mainly in Ethiopia.

Agaw languages
Agaw
Central Cushitic
Geographic
distribution
Ethiopia and central Eritrea
EthnicityAgaw people
Linguistic classificationAfroasiatic
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottologcent2193

The Agaw, or Central Cushitic, languages are a small branch of Cushitic languages. They are spoken mainly in Ethiopia.

Languages

  • Awngi (South Agaw) spoken southwest of Lake Tana, the largest, with over 350,000 speakers
(Kunfal, spoken west of Lake Tana, is not well recorded but is probably a dialect of Awngi)[1]
(dialects Qwara – nearly extinct, spoken by Beta Israel formerly living in Qwara, now in Israel; Kayla – extinct, formerly spoken by some Beta Israel, transitional between Qimant and Xamtanga)

References

  1. Joswig/Mohammed (2011)

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