Sanye Language (other)
Sanye may be any of several Cushitic languages spoken by former hunter-gatherers in Kenya: *Aweer language *Dahalo language *Waata language The Waata (Waat, Watha), or Sanye, are an Oromo-speaking people of Kenya and former hunter-gatherers. They share the name ''Sanye'' with the neighboring Dahalo. The current language of the Waata may be a dialect of Orma or otherwise Southern ...

Aweer Language
Aweer (''Aweera''), also known as Boni (''Bon, Bonta''), is a Cushitic language of Eastern Kenya. The Aweer people, known by the arguably derogatory Exonym and endonym, exonym "''Boni,''" are historically a hunter-gatherer people, traditionally subsisting on hunting, gathering, and collecting honey. Their ancestral lands range along the Kenyan coast from the Lamu County, Lamu and Ijara District, Ijara Districts into Southern Somalia, Somalia's Badhadhe District, Badaade District. According to ''Ethnologue'', there are around 8,000 speakers of Aweer. Aweer has similarities with the Garre language, however, its speakers are ethnically distinct from Garre speakers. Historical situation There is suggestions that the Aweer speech community are remnants of the early hunter-gatherer inhabitants of Eastern Africa; although this is not without debate among specialists and unlike the neighboring speakers of the Dahalo language, there is no concrete linguistic evidence of a shift from a p ...
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Dahalo Language
Dahalo is an endangered Cushitic language spoken by at most 400 Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River. Dahalo is unusual among the world's languages in using all four airstream mechanisms found in human language - clicks, implosives, ejectives, and regular consonants. While the language is known primarily as “''Dahalo''” to linguists, the term itself is an exonym supposedly used by Aweer-speakers that itself essentially means “''stupid''” or “''worthless''”. The speakers themselves refer to the language as “''numma guhooni''”. Overview The Dahalo, former elephant hunters, are dispersed among Swahili and other Bantu peoples, with no villages of their own, and are bilingual in those languages. Children no longer learn the language, which would make it moribund, and it may be extinct. Dahalo has a highly diverse sound system using all four airstream mechanisms found in human language: clicks, ejectives, and implosives, as well as ...
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