Waata language

Waata
Sanye
Native to Kenya
Region Lamu District, Tana River
Native speakers
13,000  (2009 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ssn
Glottolog waat1238[2]

Waata (Waat, Watha), or Sanye, is an Oromo language spoken by former hunter-gatherers in Kenya. It shares the name Sanye with neighboring Dahalo.

Waata may be a dialect of Orma or otherwise Southern Oromo.

External links

References

  1. Waata at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Waata". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.