| 词条 | Agaw languages |
| 释义 |
|altname=Central Cushitic |name=Agaw |region=Ethiopia and central Eritrea |ethnicity=Agaw people |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Cushitic |child1=Awngi |child2=Bilen |child3=Qimant |child4=Xamtanga |glotto=cent2193 |glottorefname=Agaw }} The Agaw or Central Cushitic languages are spoken by small groups in Ethiopia and, in one case, Eritrea. They form the main substratum influence on Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages. ClassificationThe Central Cushitic languages are classified as follows (after Appleyard):
(Kunfal, spoken west of Lake Tana, is poorly recorded but most likely a dialect of Awngi)[1]
(dialects Qwara – nearly extinct, spoken by Beta Israel formerly living in Qwara, now in Israel; Kayla – extinct, formerly spoken by some Beta Israel, transitional between Qimant and Xamtanga) There is a literature in Agaw but it is widely dispersed: from fascinating mediaeval texts containing passages in the Qimant language, now mostly in Israeli museums, to the modern, flourishing and topical in the Bilen language, with its own newspaper, based in Keren, Eritrea. Much historical material is also available in the Xamtanga language, and there is a deep tradition of folklore in the Awngi language. See also
Bibliography
References1. ^Joswig/Mohammed (2011) {{Cushitic languages}}{{Authority control}}{{AfroAsiatic-lang-stub}} 1 : Central Cushitic languages |
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