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Name: Kwegu
Type: Language
Alternate Names: Koegu; Kwegi; Menja; Nidi; Bacha
Spoken in: Ethiopia
Number of speakers: Ethnic population: 450 (2007) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 103 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 103 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: xwg
Code Standard: ISO 639-3
Documentation: SIL
Families: Nilo-Saharan
Parent Subgroup: Kwegu (kweg)
Child Dialects: Yidinich; Yidinit; Yidi (xwg-yid) Muguji (xwg-mug)

Endangerment Status


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

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