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<tr><td><b>Also Known As:</b> Gafat Language

<b>Description:</b>

The Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library. Charles Beke collected a word list in the early 1840s with difficulty from the few who knew the language, having found that "the rising generation seem to be altogether ignorant of it; and those grown-up persons who profess to speak it are anything but familiar with it." The most recent accounts of this language are the reports of Wolf Leslau, who visited the region in 1947 and after considerable work was able to find a total of four people who could still speak the language. Edward Ullendorff, in his brief exposition on Gafat, concludes that as of the time of his writing, "one may ... expect that it has now virtually breathed its last."<i>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1855062 ..... full article at Wikipedia]</i></td></tr>
<tr><td><h2>Location of Gafat language Speakers</h2>
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<tr><td><h2>Rosetta Document Collection</h2>
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<tr><td>Phonology:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_gft_phon-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_gft_phon-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
<tr><td>Vernacular Text:</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td>1</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/details/rosettaproject_gft_vertxt-1 (download)]</td><td>[http://www.archive.org/stream/rosettaproject_gft_vertxt-1 (browse)] </td></tr>
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<h2>Overview</h2>

<tr><td><b>Main Country: </b></td><td>[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ethiopia Ethiopia]</td></tr>

<tr><td><b>Spoken In: </b></td><td>

<b><i>Regions: </i></b>[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa]
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<tr><td><b>ISO 639-3 Code: </b></td><td>gft</td></tr>

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<tr><td><h2>Classification Taxonomy</h2>
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  [[Afro-Asiatic Group]]

    [[Semitic Group]]

      [[South Semitic Group]]

        [[Ethiopian Group]]

          [[South Ethiopian Group]]

            [[Outer Group]]

              [[n-Group Group]]

                <b>[[Gafat language]]</b>

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