• Dormant

• 0

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  "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."

SPEAKER ATTITUDE

Negative

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Maasai

• Swahili

PLACES

Tanzania

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

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

• Severely endangered

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 0

  Native speakers worldwide
• SEMI SPEAKERS

  ~100

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  "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.

PLACES

Arusha Region, Tanzania

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

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

PLACES

Arusha Region, Tanzania

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

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

• Endangered

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 350

  Native speakers worldwide
• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  "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]."

DATE OF INFO

1999

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"‘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."

PLACES

Tanzania;

• Endangered

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 350

  Native speakers worldwide