Asa | |
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Aasá | |
Region | Tanzania |
Ethnicity | Asa |
Extinct | 1952–1956[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | aas |
aas.html | |
Glottolog | aasa1238 |
ELP | Aasáx |
The Asa (Aasá) language, commonly rendered Aasax (also rendered as Aasá, Aasáx, Aramanik, Asak, Asax, Assa, Asá[2]), is an extinct Afroasiatic language formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania. The language is extinct; ethnic Assa in northern Tanzania remember only a few words they overheard their elders use, and none ever used it themselves. Little is known of the language; what is recorded was probably Aasa lexical words used in a register of Maasai, similar to the mixed language Mbugu.[3]