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Aasax

Aasax proper noun: the language (often considered to be Southern Cushitic) formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania.

Proper noun

Aasax

  1. The language (often considered to be Southern Cushitic) formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania.
    • Another article on Afroasiatic deals with Southern Cushitic Aasax. It is by Jürgen Christoph Winter who is practically the only man who has been able to collect some significant data on this language which is most probably extinct now.1981, Monographic Journals of the Near East: Afroasiatic linguistics
    • For example, Aasax, a Southern Cushitic language, which used to be spoken by a hunter gatherer group who once lived in northern Tanzania (the last Aasax speaker died in 1967, according to Winter 1979) is now extinct […]1996, Margaret Akinyi Obondo, From Trilinguals to Bilinguals?, page 27

Questions about Aasax

What does Aasax mean?
Aasax means the language (often considered to be Southern Cushitic) formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania.
What part of speech is Aasax?
Aasax is a proper noun.

Words near Aasax in the dictionary

  1. Aaru
  2. Aarush
  3. aaruul
  4. Aaryanna
  5. AAS
  6. Aasax
  7. AASCU
  8. Aase
  9. Aase syndrome
  10. Aase-Smith syndrome
  11. AASECT

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