On 4/19/07, Peter Kirk wrote:Fair enough, but these reservations apply only to dead languages, not to (just) living ones like Birale/Ongota. You can read the 2001 survey report on Birale at http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/SILESR2002-066.pdf, including a 320 item word list collected in 1994. But no reference is given for the linguistic classification.
For more on Birale or Ongota, see
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bxe. The population in
2000 was reported as 19. The language is listed at
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=89997 as an unclassified
branch of Afro-Asiatic, alongside Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian,
Omotic and Semitic.
Be careful of the classifications on ethnologue though:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/message/4788
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/message/4786
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