Ongota language

Spoken in

• Afro-Asiatic? Ongota

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BXE

Ongota ( foreign name Birale / Birayle ) is a dying language in southwestern Ethiopia. It is the traditional language of Ongota, most members of this people, however, have now accepted the Ts'amakko; 2003 Ongota was spoken by only eight people. The classification of the Ongota is unsecured, according to Harold C. Fleming is a separate branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages ​​constitute, according to Sava and Tosco 2003, there is a ostkuschitische language with Nilo- saharanischem substrate. Ongota has postglottalisierte and pharyngale consonants; the morphology is apparently mainly agglutinative. Verbs are conjugated by prefixed pronouns: ( kaata ) ka- c'ak " I ate / eat / will eat " (literally: " ( I ) I - eat " ), aspects or tenses can be synthesized by the position of the tone or analytically formed be. Nouns know several expressed by suffixes case.