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Name: Boni
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Aweera; Aweer; Waata; Wata; Sanye; Wasanye; Waboni; Bon; Ogoda; Wata-Bala
Spoken in: Kenya, Somalia
Number of speakers: 8,000 in Kenya. Less than 20% monolingual (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 3000 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 3500 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: bob
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup: Rendille-Boni; Eastern; Sam (rend)

Endangerment Status


UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered
Ethnologue Status: Not listed
Sutherland's Red List: Not listed

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