Boon or Af-Boon is a
nearly extinct Cushitic language
The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken primarily in the Horn of Africa, with minorities speaking Cushitic languages to the north in Egypt and the Sudan, and to the south in Kenya and Tanzania. As o ...
spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in
Jilib District
Jilib District ( so, Degmada Jilib) is a district in the southern Middle Juba (Jubbada Dhexe) region of Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐; ar, ุงูุตูู
ุงู, aแนฃ-แนขลซmฤl officially the Federal Re ...
,
Middle Jubba Region,
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐; ar, ุงูุตูู
ุงู, aแนฃ-แนขลซmฤl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
. In recent decades they have shifted to the
Maay
Mai-Mai, commonly spelled Maay Maay (also known as ''Af-Maay'', ''Af-Maymay'', or simply ''Maay''; the ''Mai-Mai'' spelling is rarely used but it is most often spoken), is a dialect of the Somali language of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiat ...
dialect of Jilib. All speakers are older than 60.
''Ethnologue'' and ''Glottolog'' leave it unclassified within Eastern Cushitic.
[ Blench (2006) leaves it as unclassified within ''Cushitic'', as records are too fragmentary to allow more than that.Classification of Afroasiatic]
ms.
Notes
References
East Cushitic languages
Languages of Somalia
Endangered languages of Africa
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