Argobba

E347903

Argobba is an endangered South Semitic language spoken by the Argobba people in central Ethiopia.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Argobba canonical 2
Argoba 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Ethiopian Semitic language
South Semitic language
language
branchOf Ethiopian Semitic
surface form: Ethio-Semitic languages
closelyRelatedTo Amharic
Eastern Gurage
surface form: East Gurage languages

Harari language
continent Africa
endangermentStatus endangered language
ethnicAssociation Argobba people
hasAlternativeName Argobba
surface form: Argoba
hasDialects northern Argobba dialects
southern Argobba dialects
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Amharic
Arabic
Oromo
surface form: Oromo language
hasMorphologicalFeature gendered nouns
root-and-pattern morphology
verbal aspect marking
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
hasReligiousAssociation Islam
hasSyntacticFeature basic SOV word order
hasVSOOrderVariant yes
ISO639-3Code agj
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageShiftTowards Amharic
Oromo
surface form: Oromo language
linguisticTypology fusional language
primaryScriptDirection right-to-left
regionOfUse Afar Region
Amhara Region
Oromia Region
riskFactor dominance of Amharic
intergenerational transmission interruption
urbanization
spokenBy Argobba people
spokenInCountry Ethiopia
spokenInRegion central Ethiopia
subbranch Ethiopian Semitic languages
South Semitic languages
subfamily Semitic languages
usedAs community identity marker
usedInDomain local trade
oral tradition
religious contexts
writingSystem Geʽez script

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Argobba hasAlternativeName Argobba
this entity surface form: Argoba