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Name: Qimant

Type: Language

Alternate Names: Kimanteney; Western Agaw; Falaša; Kemant; Falasha

Spoken in: Eritrea, Ethiopia

Number of speakers: 1,650 in Ethiopia (1994 census). Ethnic population: 172,327 (1994 census) (Ethnologue)

Number of speakers: 1500 (UNESCO)

Number of speakers: 1650 (World Oral Literature Project)

Code: ahg

Code Standard: ISO 639-3

Documentation: SIL

Families: Afro-Asiatic

Parent Subgroup: Western Central Cushitic (wccu)

Child Dialects: Dembiya; Dembya; Dambya; Demba (ahg-dem) Kwolasa; Kwolacha (ahg-kwo) Hwarasa; Qwara; Qwarina; "Kara"; Quara (ahg-hwa) Kayla (ahg-kay) Achpar (ahg-ach) Qimant; Kemant; Kimant; Kemanat; Kamant; Chemant; Qemant; Kwara (ahg-qim) Semyen (ahg-sem)

Endangerment Status

UNESCO Status: Severely endangered

Ethnologue Status: Not listed

Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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