| 词条 | Gafat language |
| 释义 |
|name=Gafat |altname= |nativename= |pronunciation= |states=Ethiopia |extinct=? |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Semitic |fam3=South Semitic |fam4=Ethiopic |fam5=South |fam6=n-group |iso3=gft |glotto=gafa1240 |glottorefname=Gafat }} The Gafat language is an extinct South Ethiopian Semitic language that was once spoken along Abbay River (Blue Nile) in Ethiopia, and later speakers pushed south of Gojjam in modern day Eastern Wellega Oromoia region.[1][2] Gafat was related to Harari and Gurage dialects.[3] The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library. Charles Beke collected a word list in the early 1840s with difficulty from the few who knew the language, having found that "the rising generation seem to be altogether ignorant of it; and those grown-up persons who profess to speak it are anything but familiar with it."[4] The most recent accounts of this language are the reports of Wolf Leslau, who visited the region in 1947 and after considerable work was able to find a total of four people who could still speak the language. Edward Ullendorff, in his brief exposition on Gafat, concludes that as of the time of his writing, "one may ... expect that it has now virtually breathed its last."[5]Notes1. ^{{cite book |last1=Lipinski |first1=Edward |title=Semitic Languages: Outline of a Comparative Grammar |publisher=Peeters Publishers |page=89 |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=IiXVqyEkPKcC&pg=PA89&dq=gafat+blue+nile&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY_IaMnvLdAhXIfbwKHfVzCkMQ6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=gafat%20blue%20nile&f=false}} 2. ^{{cite book |title=The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3 |page=128 |url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=GWjxR61xAe0C&pg=PA128&dq=gafat+blue+nile&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY_IaMnvLdAhXIfbwKHfVzCkMQ6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&q=gafat%20blue%20nile&f=false}} 3. ^{{cite book|last1=Pankhurst|first1=Richard|title=The Ethiopian Borderlands|publisher=The Red Sea Press|page=89|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zpYBD3bzW1wC&pg=PA89&dq=gafat+adare&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwis5YGE2dbQAhUF3YMKHa9jCq0Q6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=gafat%20adare&f=false|accessdate=3 December 2016}} 4. ^Charles T. Beke, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1798047 "Abyssinia: Being a Continuation of Routes in That Country", Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London], 14 (1844), p. 41 5. ^Ullendorff, Edward. The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People, Second Edition (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. 131. Bibliography
External links[https://archive.org/details/rosettaproject_gft_vertxt-1 Gafat Documents: Records of a South Ethiopic Language (1945) by Leslau] {{Semitic-lang-stub}} 3 : Extinct languages of Africa|Languages of Ethiopia|Semitic languages |
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