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Native Speakers Worldwide

~2,500

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Language Information By Source

Dahālík, a newly discovered Afro-Semitic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

~2,500

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Transmission

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Speakers

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

Almost all

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

Countries

Eritrea

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Location description

Eritrea, on three islands of the archipelago of Dahlak: Dahlak Kebir, Nora and Dehil.

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Speakers' attitudes

Very positive

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Eritrea, on three islands of the archipelago of Dahlak: Dahlak Kebir, Nora and Dehil.

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Other languages used

Arabic, Afar, Tigre

Domains of other languages

Arabic is the language of primary education, and is used by fishermen and traders.

More on context

"The Dahalik native speakers have a very positive attitude towards their mother tongue. They state that it has been used by many generations over more than two thousand years, and that it is very important that it should not be forgotten, in order to save its specificity, and their cultural identity."

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Dahālík, a newly discovered Afro-Semitic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea
    Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude. 2005. Dahālík, a newly discovered Afro-Semitic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea.
    http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/Senelle/Dahalik_shaebia05.pdf
  3. Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude (2005). La détermination du nom en dahalik, langue afro-sémitique parlée en Erythrée in Mengozzi, Alessandro (ed.) Studi Afroasiatici. XI Incontro Italiano di Linguistica Camitosemitica Milano: Francoangeli., pp. 207-217.