Ware language

Ware
Region Lake Victoria
Extinct (date missing)
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3 wre (retired)
Linguist list
wre (retired)
Glottolog ware1252[1]
JE.407[2]

Ware is an extinct Bantu language near Lake Victoria in East Africa.

ISO problems

When an SIL team failed to find any speakers, Ethnologue retired the ISO code, apparently not realizing the language was known to be extinct.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ware". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Jouni Filip Maho, 2009. New Updated Guthrie List Online