https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Weyto_language_%28woy%29 2026-10-17T05:56:28Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.1 https://rosettapanglossia.longnow.org/index.php?title=Weyto_language_(woy)&diff=49036&oldid=prev 2009-08-13T21:03:44Z

<p>New page: &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt; &lt;table valign=top&gt; &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also Known As:&lt;/b&gt; Weyto Language,Wayto,Weyt&#039;o &lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;/b&gt; The W...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=left width=&quot;50%&quot;&gt;<br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Also Known As:&lt;/b&gt; Weyto Language,Wayto,Weyt&#039;o<br /> <br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;Description:&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> The Weyto language is believed to be an extinct language formerly spoken in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia by the Weyto, a small group of hippopotamus hunters who now speak Amharic.<br /> The Weyto language was first mentioned by the Scottish traveler James Bruce, who spoke Amharic, passed through the area about 1770 and reported that &quot;the Wayto speak a language radically different from any of those in Abyssinia,&quot; but was unable to obtain any &quot;certain information&quot; on it, despite prevailing upon the king to send for two Weyto men for him to ask questions, which they would &quot;neither answer nor understand&quot; even when threatened with hanging. The next European to report on them, Eugen Mittwoch, described them as uniformly speaking a dialect of Amharic (Mittwoch 1907). This report was confirmed by Marcel Griaule when he passed through in 1928, although he added that at one point a Weyto sung a song (sadly unrecorded) &quot;in the dead language of the Wohitos&quot; whose meaning the singer himself did not understand, except for a handful of words for hippopotamus body parts which, he says, had remained in use.<br /> This Amharic dialect is described by Marcel Cohen (1939) as featuring a fair number of words&lt;i&gt;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=1187068 ..... full article at Wikipedia]&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Location of Weyto language Speakers&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> http://llmap.org/languages/woy/static_map.png?width=400&amp;height=300&amp;kilroywashere=.png<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;td valign=top align=right&gt; <br /> &lt;table valign=top&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;table&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;h2&gt;Overview&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main Country: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;[http://www.freebase.com/view/en/ethiopia Ethiopia]&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;Spoken In: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Regions: &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;[http:///www.freebase.com/view/en/africa Africa] <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;ISO 639-3 Code: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;woy&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Classification Taxonomy&lt;/h2&gt;<br /> [[All Languages]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;[[Unclassified Family Group]]<br /> <br /> &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;[[Weyto language]]&lt;/b&gt;<br /> <br /> &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> &lt;/td&gt;<br /> &lt;/tr&gt;<br /> &lt;/table&gt;<br /> <br /> __NOTOC__</div>

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