Rer Bare

The Rer Bare (or Rerebere, Adona) are a tribe in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region on the Shabele River, near Somalia, who currently speak Somali. According to the Ethnologue, "it is uncertain if they spoke a different language earlier"; if so, it is extinct. It seems to have been first mentioned in print by Lionel Bender in 1975:

: D. W. Mcclure, Sr. first reported to me the presence of Sudanese immigrants on the Wabi Shebelle River at Gode in the eastern Ogaden. They are said to have their own language, bearing the given name [Rerebere] . Later Taye Reya informed me that Sudanese immigrants are found along the Ganale and Dawa Rivers as well, and that they are referred to by the Somali as "rer bare" ("rer" means sub-tribe in Somali.) They are also known as "adona", and they speak Somali as well as their own language... I cannot say with certainty whether they speak one or more languages of what any of them is... So far no linguistic data has come my way.

Bibliography

* Bender, M. L. "The Ethiopian Nilo-Saharans". Artistic Printers, Addis Ababa 1975.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RER Ethnologue - Rer Bare]