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Name:
Argobba
Once Spoken in:
Ethiopia
Number of speakers:
10,900 (1994 census), decreasing. 100 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 62,831 (1994 census) USE 3,236 L2 speakers. The ethnic group near Ankober mainly speaks Amharic [amh]; the group near Harar mainly speaks Oromo [hae]
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
8000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
10860
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
agj
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup:
AA Group; Amharic-Argobba; North (amha)
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Argobba
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