Asa language

Asa
Aasá
RegionTanzania
EthnicityAsa
Extinct1952–1956[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3aas
aas.html
Glottologaasa1238
ELPAasáx

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]

  1. ^ Winter 1979.
  2. ^ "Aasáx". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
  3. ^ Petrollino & Mous 2010, p. 212.