Argobba

Argobba (ዓርጎባ)

Argobba is spoken by about 40,000 people in an area north-east
of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. It is a member of the Southern
Ethiopian branch of Semitic languages and has four
main dialects: Harar (extinct), Aliyu Amba, Shewa Robit and
Shonke. There is currently a shift among Argobba speakers
in favour of Oromo or Amharic, to which Argobba is fairly
closely related.

Argobba can be written with a version of the Ethiopic script.

Argobba script

Argobba alphabet

Information compiled by Wolfram Siegel

Links

Information about Argobba
http://www.ethnologue.org/show_language.asp?code=agj
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argobba_language

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