Kw'adza language

Kw'adza language

language
name=Kw'adza
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Tanzania
region=Mbulu District
speakers=Extinct
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Cushitic
fam3=South
iso3=wka

Kw'adza is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Tanzania in the Mbulu District. The last speaker died sometime between 1976 and 1999. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

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References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=wka Ethnologue entry for Kw'adza]


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