Zay
[aka Zway, Lak'i, Laqi]Classification: Afro-Asiatic
·threatened
- PLACES
- "West of Asella at the shores of Lake Zway."
Language metadata
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Zway, Lak'i, Laqi, Gelilla, Zoay |
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Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Ethiopic |
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ISO 639-3 |
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zwa |
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As csv |
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Language information by source
Compare Sources (6)
Information from: “Initial SLLE survey of the Zway area” (10) . Wedekind, Klaus and Wedekind, Charlotte (2002) SIL International
Information from: “Initial SLLE survey of the Zway area” (10) . Wedekind, Klaus and Wedekind, Charlotte (2002) SIL International
Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Amharic;
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"[Zay's] number of speakers appears to be decreasing because of the dominant role of Amharic."
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition” . Lewis, M. Paul, Gary F. Simons, and Charles D. Fennig · SIL International
- DATE OF INFO
- 1994
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"Use of Zay is decreasing due to migration from the islands (the traditional homeland) to the lakeshore, where they become Oromo [orm] speakers."
- PLACES
- Ethiopia
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Oromia region: Lake Zway shores and east islands."
Information from: “Sociolinguistic survey report of the Zay language area” (12) . Gardner, Simon and Siebert, Ralph (2001) SIL International
- DATE OF INFO
- 1994
- MORE ON VITALITY
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"As a language to be passed on to the children, Orominya is nowadays of equal importance to Zay. ... [The Zay people] state that their language will be used for many generations and that it will not be forgotten."
- SPEAKER ATTITUDE
- "Zay people have a positive attitude towards their mother tongue."
- OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
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Amharic
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Orominya
- LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS
"Among the interviewees there were no monolingual speakers of Zay. ... Zay used to talk with parents, Orominya used with siblings and spouses. Amharic also used."