Dahalo
[aka Sanye, Guo Garimani,]Classification: Afro-Asiatic
·endangered
Classification: Afro-Asiatic
·endangered
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Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, South Cushitic |
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Information from: “Dahalo: an endangered language” (137-155) . Tosco, Mauro (1992) , Brenzinger, Matthias · Mouton de Gruyter
"Dahalo is a language spoken in the Lamu district of Coast Province, Kenya, by a few hundred people of all ages [...] Concerning the actual number of Dahalo speakers, it is calculated in "a few hundreds" by Ehret (1980: 12), about 500 (followed by a question mark) by Sasse (1981: 199), while Zaborski "could estimate about 280 of them, though the upper limit may be about 400" (1987: 223-234). The same estimate of "less than 400" is made by Art Rilling of the Kenya Working Group of the Summer Institute of Linguistics... (Rilling 1986: 5). We think that the figure of 400 cannot greatly exceed the truth."
Swahili
"Informants repeatedly told us that, while in the olden days there were Dahalo who did not master Swahili, today everybody can at least understand it. As a matter of fact, all the Dahalo we met were bilingual, while nobody had a good command of any other language. In particular, English - Kenya's official language - was totally unknown [...] None of [the Dahalo] had learnt to read, and even the hypothesis of written material in Dahalo seems to have been largely misunderstood: 'They seemed personally disinterested though not opposed to the development of mother tongue materials.' (Rilling 1986: 15)"
Lamu District of the Coast Province, Kenya.
Information from: “A survey on language death in Africa” (402) . Sommer, Gabriele (1992) , Brenzinger, Matthias · Mouton de Gruyter
Swahili; Aweera; Pokomo
"Lamu District of Coast Province." An area above the Tana River, bordered by Mokowe, Witu, and Kipini.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Africa” ( ch. 7) . Gerrit J. Dimmendaal and F. K. Erhard Voeltz (2007) , Christopher Moseley · Routledge
3000
Swahili
"Dahalo people are bilingual in Swahili, which is becoming their primary language."
"Near the mouth of the Tana River along the Kenyan coast"