词条 | Waata |
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|name=Waata |altname=Sanye |states=Kenya |region=Lamu District, Tana River |speakers={{sigfig|12600|2}} |date=2009 census |ref=e18 |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Cushitic |fam3=Lowland East |fam4=Oromoid |fam5=Oromo |fam6=Southern Oromo? |iso3=ssn |glotto=waat1238 |glottorefname=Waata }} The Waata (Waat, Watha), or Sanye, are an Oromo-speaking people of Kenya and former hunter-gatherers. They share the name Sanye with the neighboring Dahalo. The current language of the Waata may be a dialect of Orma or otherwise Southern Oromo. However, there is evidence that they may have shifted from a Southern Cushitic language, a group that includes Dahalo.[1] See also
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References1. ^Martin Walsh, 1992/1993. The Vuna and the Degere: Remnants and Outcasts among the Duruma and Digo of Kenya and Tanzania. Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research 34/35: 133–147. {{Languages of Kenya}}{{Cushitic languages}}{{Authority control}}{{AfroAsiatic-lang-stub}} 2 : Languages of Kenya|Hunter-gatherers of Africa |
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