Ongota
Birale; 'Ongota; Birelle; Ifa'ongota; "Shanqilla";
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"The Ongota have felt and will feel the need to change their despised status. It is therefore understandable that they have started to give up their ridiculed traditional language."
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"The Ongota abandoned their language and ceased teaching it to their children in order to avoid being teased by the Ts'amakko and the Banna."
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"Its speakers are gradually shifting towards the Cushitic language Ts'amay; interestingly, many Ts'amay are now in the process of shifting their language solidarity towards the Cushitic language Konso or the Omotic language Hamar."
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"Ongota is the self-designation of a population from southwest Ethiopia north of Chaw Behar (earlier lake Stefania) and east of Lake Turkana (earlier lake Rudolf in Kenya)."
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"Ongota is the self-designation of a population from southwest Ethiopia north of Chaw Behar (earlier lake Stefania) and east of Lake Turkana (earlier lake Rudolf in Kenya)."
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"Under a strong influence of neighboring languages as Tsamay, Gawwada; Konso, Oromo of Borana, Arbore; Hamer, Hanna, and others, Ongota was creolized or even pidginized. The most dominant process could be called a 'Tsamayization'."
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- Ongota or Birale: a moribund language of Gemu-Gofa (Ethiopia)Fleming, Harold C., Yilma Aklilu, Mitiku Birru Ayalew, Richard J. Hayward, Yukio Miyawaki, Pavel Mikesh and J. Michael Seelig. 1992. "Ongota or Birale: a Moribund Language of Gemu-Gofa (Ethiopia)." In Journal of Afroasiatic languages, 3 , no. 3: 181-225.
- Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) part IIWedekind, Klaus. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha Areas with Excursions To Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) Part II." In SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 2002-066: Online: http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-066.http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-066
- Are the African Pygmies an Ethnographic Fiction?Roger Blench. 1999. "Are the African Pygmies An Ethnographic Fiction?" In Central African Hunter-Gatherers in a Multidisciplinary Perspective: Challenging Elusiveness, edited by Karen Biesboruck et al. 41-60. Netherlands: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden.
- Nilo-Saharan Stratum of OngotaVáclav Blažek. 2007. "Nilo-Saharan Stratum of Ongota." In Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics: Proceedings of the 8th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, August 22-25, 2001, edited by Mechthild Reh and Doris L. Payne. 22: 1-10. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe.
- 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/
- Ongota (Birale), a moribund language of Southwest EthiopiaSavà, Graziano. 2003. "Ongota (Birale), a Moribund Language of Southwest Ethiopia." In Language death and language maintenance: theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches, edited by Mark Janse and Sijmen Tol. 171-188. John Benjamins Publ.
- 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
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