Dahalo language
Endangered Cushitic language of Kenya / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by around 500–600 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual among the world's languages in using all four airstream mechanisms found in human language: clicks, implosives, ejectives, and pulmonic consonants.
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Dahalo | |
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numma guhooni | |
Native to | Kenya |
Region | Coast Province |
Native speakers | 580 (2019)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dal |
Glottolog | daha1245 |
ELP | Dahalo |
Dahalo is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010)[2] | |
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While the language is known primarily as “Dahalo” to linguists, the term itself is an exonym supposedly used by Aweer speakers that itself essentially means “stupid” or “worthless.”[3] The speakers themselves refer to the language as numma guhooni.