Awjilah language

Awjilah language

language
name=Awjilah
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Libya
region=Cyrenaica
speakers=2,000 (1993)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Berber
fam3=Eastern
fam4=Awjila-Sokna
iso3=auj

Awjilah (also known as Aujila, Augila, Aoudjila) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cyrenaica, Libya. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.] This language is seriously endangered as the youngest speakers have reached or passed middle age. [ [http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9737&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO] ]

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* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=auj Ethnologue entry for Awjilah]
* [http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9737&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO entry for Awjilah]

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