Awjila

E668011

Awjila is an endangered Eastern Berber language once spoken in the oasis town of Awjila in northeastern Libya.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Awjila canonical 9
Aujilah 1
Awjilah 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language
endangered language
language
country Libya
documentedIn linguistic fieldwork
endangermentCause language shift to Arabic
hasAlternativeName Augila
Aujila
Aujilah
linked to: Awjila

Aujili
Awjilah
linked to: Awjila

Awjili
linked to: Awjila
hasCaseSystemType reduced case marking
hasConsonantInventoryType Berber-type consonant system
hasGrammaticalGender feminine
masculine
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Ghadamès
Siwi
Sokna
hasMorphologicalFeature Afroasiatic root-and-pattern morphology
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
hasResearcher Karl-G. Prasse
Marijn van Putten
Umberto Paradisi
hasSpeakerCommunityType oasis community
hasTenseAspectSystemType prefix-conjugation verbs
suffix-conjugation verbs
hasVowelInventoryType reduced vowel system
hasWordOrder VOS
VSO
isEndangeredMinorityLanguageOf Libya
ISO639-3Code auj
languageBranch Berber languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
locatedInOasisTown Awjila oasis
linked to: Awjila Oasis
region Cyrenaica
spokenIn Awjila
Libya
spokenInRegion northeastern Libya
status severely endangered
subclassOf Eastern Berber language
threatenedBy dominance of Libyan Arabic
writingSystem Arabic script
linked to: Arabic alphabet

Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tasiwit closelyRelatedTo Awjila
Proto-Berber hasDescendant Awjila
Eastern Berber hasSubgroup Awjila
Awjila spokenIn Awjila
Awjila hasAlternativeName Awjili
linked to: Awjila
Awjila hasAlternativeName Awjilah
linked to: Awjila
Awjila hasAlternativeName Aujilah
linked to: Awjila
Sokna closelyRelatedTo Awjila
Al Wahat contains Awjila