Endangered Languages Project - Aweer

Aweer

^{[aka "Boni", Waata, Wata]}

Classification: Afro-Asiatic

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endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		"Boni", Waata, Wata, Sanye, Wasanye, Waboni, Bon, Ogoda, Wata-Bala
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, Lowland East Cushitic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		bob
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		The name "Boni" may be pejorative; "Aweer" is the preferred name.

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Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
<200
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
5000

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Many of its former speakers have switched to the Cushitic language Orma or Somali, or to Swahili."

PLACES: Kenya, near Somali border

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,500
Native speakers worldwide

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1,000-9,999
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
8,000 in Kenya. Less than 20%% monolingual.

PLACES: Kenya; Somalia;

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2000-5000
Native speakers worldwide

MORE ON VITALITY

Approximately 2000 speakers in Kenya and 1000 in Somalia.

PLACES: Kenya; Somalia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Heine (1982a: 11): 'The boni people inhabit the hinterland of the northern Kenya coast as well as the adjacent parts in southern Somalia... administratively, the vast majority of them live in the Lamu District of Coast Province, Republic of Kenya."

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing