Argobba language
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Name (Hebrew)
שפת ארגובה
Name (Latin)
Argobba language
Name (Arabic)
اللغة الأرغوبية
Other forms of name
Argobbinya language
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Ethiopian languages
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Ethiopia
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q29292
Library of congress:
sh 85007106
Sources of Information
- Ethnologue:p. 217 (Argobba (Argobbinya) Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, Southeast, Ethio-Semitic, Central, Amharic-Argobba. Dialects: Ankober, Harer. Close to Amharic)
- Fivaz. African langs., 1977:p. 70 (Argobba (Argobbinya, Islam, Ankober, Harer); under Southern Ethiopic)
Wikipedia description:
Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken in several districts of Afar, Amhara, and Oromia regions of Ethiopia by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopic languages subgroup, and is closely related to Amharic. 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." Today, many Argobba in the Harari Region are shifting to the Oromo language. Those in the Ankober district speak the Amharic language.
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