Argobba language

E806186

The Argobba language is an endangered Ethiosemitic language spoken by the Argobba people of Ethiopia, closely related to Harari and other languages of the Harar region.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Argobba language canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ethiosemitic language
endangered language
language
alternateName Argoba
linked to: Argobba

Argobbinya
closelyRelatedTo East Gurage languages
linked to: Gurage languages

Harari language
Siltʼe language
linked to: Silt'e language

Zay language
continent Africa
country Ethiopia
endangermentStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Argobba people
glottocode argo1244
hasDialect Aliyu Amba-Argobba dialect
Shonke-Argobba dialect
T’ollaha-Argobba dialect
hasGrammaticalFeature gendered nouns
root-and-pattern morphology
verb conjugation by person and number
hasLinguisticInfluenceFrom Amharic
Arabic
Oromo
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
pharyngeal consonants
isClassifiedBy Ethnologue
Glottolog
ISO639-3 agj
isSubjectOf language documentation projects
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Ethiosemitic
Semitic
region Afar Region
Amhara Region
Oromia Region
northeastern Ethiopia
riskFactor language shift to Amharic
small speaker population
scriptDirection right-to-left
spokenBy Argobba people
spokenIn Ethiopia
subfamilyOf Harari–East Gurage group
linked to: Eastern Gurage

South Ethiosemitic languages
usedAs vernacular language
usedInReligion Islamic religious context
writingSystem Geʽez script

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Referenced by (2)

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

Harari language sharesFeaturesWith Argobba language
Adarinnya isCloselyRelatedTo Argobba language