Aasáx language

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Aasáx
Spoken in: Tanzania
Total speakers: 350 (1999)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Cushitic
  South
   Aasáx
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: aas

Aasáx (also spelled Asax, Asá, Aasá, Assa, Asak) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Assa people in Tanzania. The language is endangered, but it has still about 350 speakers in northern Tanzania. Aasáx is a member of the Cushitic branch. [1]

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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