Dahalik language
| Dahalik (ዳሃሊክ) | |
|---|---|
| Dahaalik, Dahalik, Dahlak | |
| Native to | Eritrea |
| Region | Dahlak Archipelago |
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Native speakers
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2,500 (2012)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dlk |
| Glottolog | daha1247[2] |
Dahalik (ዳሃሊክ [haka (na)] dahālík, "[language (of)] the people of Dahlak";[3] also Dahaalik, Dahlik, Dahlak) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea. Its speech area is off the coast of Massawa, on three islands in the Dahlak Archipelago: Dahlak Kebir, Nora and Dehil. It has around 2,500 to 3,000 speakers.
Dahalik belongs to the Afro-Asiatic family's Semitic branch, and is closely related to Tigre and Tigrinya. It is said to be not mutually intelligible with Tigre (see Shaebia below), and, according to Simeone-Senelle,[4] is sufficiently different to be considered a separate language. However, there are those who disagree.[5]
References
- ↑ Dahalik (ዳሃሊክ) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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- ↑ Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle: Dahālík, a newly discovered Afro-Semitic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea (PDF), in: shaebia.org, 2005
- ↑ *Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude. 2000. 'Situation linguistique dans le sud de l'Erythrée', in Wolff/Gensler (eds) Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, 1997, Köln: Köppe, p. 261–276.
- ↑ Idris, S. M. 2012. Dahalik: An Endangered Language or a Tigre Variety? Journal of Eritrean Studies 6 (1): 51–74.
External links
- Shaebia: Dahalik, a newly discovered Afro-Semitic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea PDF (122 KiB)
- Shaebia: Dahalik – Mysterious Tongue of the Dahlak Islands
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