Iraqw language

Iraqw language

language
name=Iraqw
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Tanzania
region=Arusha Region
speakers=462,000 (2001)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Cushitic
fam3=South
iso3=irk

Iraqw is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Tanzania in the Arusha Region. Asa is a dialect. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=irk Ethnologue entry for Iraqw]
* Maarten, Mous. 1993. "A grammar of Iraqw". Hamburg: Buske.
* Mous, Maarten, Martha Qorro, Roland Kießling. 2002. "Iraqw-English Dictionary. With an English and a Thesaurus Index". Cushitic Language Studies Volume 18.


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