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The Gafat language is an extinct South Ethiopian Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River (Nile) in Ethiopia.
The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th
Century held at the Bodleian Library. Charles Beke collected a word list in the early 1840s with difficulty from the few who
knew the language, having found that the rising generation seem to be altogether ignorant of it; and those grown-up persons
who profess to speak it are anything but familiar with it. The most recent accounts of this language are the reports of Wolf
Leslau, who visited the region in 1947 and after considerable work was able to find a total of four people who could still
speak the language. Edward Ullendorff, in his brief exposition on Gafat, concludes that as of the time of his writing, one
may ... expect that it has now virtually breathed its last. |
Names (more)[br] Gafateg[ca] Gafat [en] Gafat language [hr] Gafat jezik [pl] Język gafat |
Language type : Extinct
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : gftLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gfthttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:gft More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: gftFreebase ISO 639-3 : gft GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |