Zay
Zway; Lak'i; Laqi; Gelilla; Zoay;
Afro-Asiatic; Semitic; Ethiopic
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2002
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"West of Asella at the shores of Lake Zway."
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2007
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"[Zay's] number of speakers appears to be decreasing because of the dominant role of Amharic."

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2010
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Ethiopia
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"Oromia region: Lake Zway shores and east islands."
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"Oromia region: Lake Zway shores and east islands."
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"Use of Zay is decreasing due to migration from the islands (the traditional homeland) to the lakeshore, where they become Oromo [orm] speakers."
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"Zay people have a positive attitude towards their mother tongue."
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Amharic, Orominya
"Amharic is language of instruction in schools."
"Among the interviewees there were no monolingual speakers of Zay. ... Zay used to talk with parents, Orominya used with siblings and spouses. Amharic also used."

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- 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 University2012. "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."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- The struggle for recognition: a critical ethnographic study of the Zayhttps://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/24136/ASC-075287668-3432-01.pdf?sequence=2
- A Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Zay People in Ethiopiahttp://www-01.sil.org/SILESR/2011/silesr2011-046.pdf
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