Awjilah language

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Awjilah
Spoken in: Libya 
Region: Cyrenaica
Total speakers: 2,000 (1993)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Berber
  Eastern
   Awjila-Sokna
    Awjilah
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: auj

Awjilah (also known as Aujila, Augila, Aoudjila) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Cyrenaica, Libya. [1] This language is seriously endangered as the youngest speakers have reached or passed middle age. [2]

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

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