Anfillo
| Anfillo | ||
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Gesprochen in |
Äthiopien | |
| Sprecher | 500 (1990 SIL) 25 monolinguals | |
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| ISO 639-1 |
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| ISO 639-2 |
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Anfillo ist eine nordomotische Sprache, die von ca. 500 Leuten in Westäthiopien gesprochen wird. The term Anfillo is used to refer both to the language and the people found in a small community in the Anfillo woreda, part of the Mirab Welega Zone. Die Sprache ist ovm Aussterben bedroht, da sie nur von Über-60-Jährigen gesprochen wird. All younger generations have shifted to the Nilo-Saharan language of the Busase people.
Im Anfillo gibt es fünf Vokale und an die 22 Konsonanten. Long vowels and consonants do occur and may have phonemic value. Die normale Satzstellung ist Subjekt-Objekt-Verb. Nouns follow their modifier. Verbs are inflected for tense, aspect and mood. Three tenses are marked morphologically: present, past, and future. Gender and number are expressed lexically.
References
- Goshu, Debela & Demeke, Girma Awgichew [2005] 'Some points on Anfillo' (unpublished handout, International Conference on Endangered Ethiopian Languages, Addis Ababa 27-30 April 2005).
- Wedekind, Klaus & Wedekind, Charlotte (2002) 'Sociolinguistic Survey Report on Languages of the Asosa-Begi-Komosha area, Part II' (SIL Electronic Survey Report 2002-055). [contains a map]