Ongota (also known as Birale/Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia.
In 2000, it was said to be in a state of decline with only 8 elderly native speakers, the rest of their small village on the west bank of the Weyt'o River having adopted the Ts'amakko language instead.
'Ongota is in an advanced process of extinction due to several socio-economic reasons.
The small 'Ongota settlement in the forest on the west bank of the Weyt'o River in Ethiopia is surrounded by Ts'amakko people, a bigger community speaking a Dullay language.
The 'Ongotalanguage is havily influenced by the Ts'amakko language, Ts'amakko borrowings being more and more absorbed without any adaptation.
"Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbare (Irbore)."
"Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) part II."
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The Ongota of Southwestern Ethiopia, a small group living on hunting and speaking an unclassified language, have shifted to the neighbouring powerful language, Ts’amakko.
Also the on-going language shift of the Dahalo (Kenya) towards Swahili, alluded to by Ladefoged (1992), has little to do with official language policies, and it is much more connected with a long, steady alignment of former hunting and gathering communities to the language of their pastoralist or agriculturalist dominating neighbors (cf.
And it is also obvious that Yaaku and Ongota are more exemplificatory of a general trend of what has been going on from time immemorial around the world than either Cornish or Occitan — where language loss or maintenance are the direct result of action by a central government.
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Ongota (also known as Birale / Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia.
In the year 2000 it was to be in a state of decline only 8 elderly speakers most other speakers adopted the Ts'amakko language instead.
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www.freeglossary.com /Ongota (84 words)
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The paper concludes that the phonological processes and changes depicted in the analysis are an indication that the relevant languages are undergoing gradual internal changes that will lead to their diversification over time.
Non-coercive language behaviour and the pressure towards language-changing: the death of Ongota Graziano Savà (Leiden University) and Mauro Tosco (University of Napels) In principle, all the languages spoken in a state’s boundaries have the right to receive legal status and be considered expression of local communities.
And there are the hunter gatherers Ongota, who decided to replace their language towards Ts’amakko.
A two and a half year border war with Eritrea that ended with a peace treaty on 12 December 2000 has strengthened the ruling coalition, but has hurt the nation's economy.
Some of these are: Afar, Amharic, Anfillo, Berta, Bussa, Ge'ez, Konso, Ongota, Oromo, Rer Bare, Saho, Soddo, Somali, Tigrigna, Weyto, and Harari.
This exerpt is from the text "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach" by Lionel Bender and Hailu Fulass.
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At the other end of the scale, fewer than a thousand people speak about a third of the world's languages.
In Ethiopia, for example, the Ongotalanguage is spoken by nineteen people, while there are only six speakers of Elmolo.
A few years ago [1995?], the last two people who spoke Gafat died after a linguist brought them out of the jungle into the highlands, where they caught deadly colds.
Ongota, Birale, Shanqilla < unclassified African language (Map 16)
Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamaya and Diraasha areas, with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) - Part II (PDF).
For crucial languages spoken by small foraging groups, such as Hadza, Dahalo, Ongota, Laal and the Khoisan languages little more than sketches are available.
The literature on Somalia suggests a quite different pattern, of many endangered and moribund speech-forms other than those shown.
The absence of Ongota from this map is somewhat puzzling as is the notion that Burji is threatened; an outlier in Kenya may be threatened but it is clearly alive and well in Ethiopia.
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The remaining speakers of these languages range in number from just a handful to a few hundreds.
The Ongota and Elmolo languages of Ethiopia which have less than 20 speakers, and the eighteen or so endangered languages in Alaska having similar number of speakersare just a few of the examples that may be cited.
The effects of the colonial period on languages had not always been detrimental.
The poster, with a picture of a New Guinea highlander tribesman, asks, "What's on his mind?
Nearby is a brochure for the Endangered Language Fund, based at Yale, which has preserved texts written in Kuskokwim (Alaska), Jingulu (Australia), Maliseet (Maine), Yei (southeastern China), Yuchi (Oklahoma), Shabo (Ethiopia), Ongota (Ethiopia), and other endangered languages, and has funded dictionaries in Comanche and Tohono O'odham (both American Indian).
The Siberian languages Harrison works on are dying out because their native speakers were politically repressed during the era of Soviet rule.
Title: Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha Areas with Excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) Part II Abstract:
This is a sequel to "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Languages of the Gawwada (Dullay), Diraasha (Gidole), Muusiye (Bussa) Areas.
