Aari language
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| Aari | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Ethiopia | |
| Region | north central Omo Region | |
| Total speakers | 158,857 (1998 census) 129,350 monolinguals |
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| Language family | Afro-Asiatic | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | afa | |
| ISO 639-3 | aiw | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Aari (also spelled Ari, Ara, Aro, Aarai) is an Omotic language of Ethiopia. The speakers of this language have been known as Shankilla (or Shanqella), a name which is considered derogatory. According to the 1998 census, over 150,000 people speak Aari as a mother tongue. [1]
There are ten dialects, corresponding to the ten tribes of the Aari people: Gozza, Bako, Biyo, Galila, Laydo, Seyki, Shangama, Sido, Wubahamer, and Zeddo. Literacy in Aari is about 10%. The first translation of the New Testament into Aari was published in 1997.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Aari: A language of Ethiopia", Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] Bibliography
- Richard Hayward (1990). "Notes on the Aari Language," Omotic Language Studies, Richard Hayward (editor), pp. 425-493. London: SOAS.
[edit] External links
- The Aari people (missionary report)
- "Map of the Aari language", LL-Map website
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