• Dormant

• 0

  Muttersprachler weltweit
• MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER

  "In all, we collected data from twelve individuals ranging in age from fifty to seventy years old at four different places, totaling about four hundred items (lexicon and set phrases) with a good deal of overlapping material."

SPRECHEREINSTELLUNG

Negative

ANDERE VON DER GEMEINSCHAFT GESPROCHENE SPRACHEN

• Maasai

• Swahili

ORTE

Tanzania

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG

"The Aasá live in the Maasai Plains south of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania... [and in] settlements including Komolo, Lendanai, Lemelepo, and Naajuu."

• Sicher gefährdet

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 350

  Muttersprachler weltweit
• MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER

  "In 1999 reportedly still spoken in the central Massai Steppe. No remaining speakers in the eastern Maasai Steppe in 1976. Dependent on the Maasai and absorbed into Maasai and nearby Bantu groups. Also use Maasai [mas]."

DATUM DER INFORMATION

1999

KOMMENTARE ZUM SPRACHKONTEXT

"‘Assa’ is the name for the people. ‘Lamanik’ and ‘Il Konono’ apparently refer to ancestry and not the language. In the last 4 districts mentioned the Assa are nomadic and hold joint religious ceremonies with the Temi (Sonjo) to the north. Hunter-gatherers; settled and nomadic."

ORTE

Tanzania;

• Sicher gefährdet

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 350

  Muttersprachler weltweit

• Stark gefährdet

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 0

  Muttersprachler weltweit
• HALBSPRECHER

  ~100

• MEHR ZUR ANZAHL DER SPRECHER

  "According to Winter (1979), the last speaker died in 1976... Smith (in Blackburn n.d.) gives the approximate number of 100 people who have some knowledge of the language." Others claim approximately 1000 speakers of different levels of competence.

ORTE

Arusha Region, Tanzania

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG

"...area centered around Komolo and Loiborsoit, Arusha Region."

ORTE

Arusha Region, Tanzania

ORTSBESCHREIBUNG

"Tanzania, area centred around Komolo and Loiborsoit, Arusha Region."