North Agaw

E392871

North Agaw is an alternative name for the Bilen language, a Cushitic language spoken primarily in Eritrea.

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Label Occurrences
North Agaw canonical 1

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Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic language
language
alternativeName Bilen language
closelyRelatedTo Qimant language
Xamtanga language
countryOfficialStatus not an official language of Eritrea
endonym Bilen
hasMinoritySpeakersIn Diaspora communities
hasMorphologicalFeature gender distinction
number distinction
rich verb morphology
hasNativeSpeakersIn Eritrea
hasPhonologicalFeature emphatic consonants
vowel length contrast
iso639-3 byn
languageBranch Afroasiatic languages
languageFamily Cushitic
partOf Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic language family
primaryCountry Eritrea
region Anseba Region
Keren
script Geʽez script
Latin script
spokenBy Bilen people
spokenIn Eritrea
status minority language
subfamily Agaw languages
usedFor daily communication
oral tradition
wordOrder SOV

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

Bilen hasAlternativeName North Agaw