Argobba language

Argobba
Argobba
ዓርጎባ (Argoba)
Native to	Ethiopia
Ethnicity	140,000 Argobba (2007 census)
Native speakers	44,000 (2007 census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Transversal Amharic–Argobba Argobba; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Geʽez script (In developing use)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	agj
Glottolog	argo1244
ELP	Argobba

Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken in several districts of Afar, Amhara, and Oromia regions of Ethiopia by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopic languages subgroup, and is closely related to Amharic.^[1]

Writing in the mid-1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it."^[2] Today, many Argobba in the Harari Region are shifting to the Oromo language.^[3] Those in the Ankober district speak the Amharic language.^[4]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Argobba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ Ullendorff, Edward, (1965) The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People, second edition (London: Oxford University Press), pp. 131f. ISBN 0-19-285061-X.
^ Kifleyesus, Abbebe. 2006. The Argobba of Ethiopia are not the Language They Speak. Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies 9:7-22.
^ "Argobba". Ethnologue. Retrieved November 21, 2023.

[e25-1] Argobba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] Ullendorff, Edward, (1965) The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People, second edition (London: Oxford University Press), pp. 131f. ISBN 0-19-285061-X.

[3] Kifleyesus, Abbebe. 2006. The Argobba of Ethiopia are not the Language They Speak. Aethiopica: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies 9:7-22.

[Agj-4] "Argobba". Ethnologue. Retrieved November 21, 2023.

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