Kayla, or Kayliñña (
Ge'ez: ካይላ ''kāylā'', for the people,
Ge'ez: ካይልኛ ''kāylññā'', Kayla,
Amharic, and
Tigrinya
(; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples. It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions.
History and literatur ...
for the language) is one of two
Agaw dialects formerly spoken by a subgroup of the
Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews). It is a dialect of
Qimant. The name ''Kayla'' is sometimes also used as a cover term for both Beta Israel dialects. It is known only from unpublished notes by
Jacques Faitlovitch
Jacques Faitlovitch (1881–1955), an Ashkenazi Jew born in Łódź, Congress Poland, studied Ethiopian languages at the Sorbonne under Joseph Halévy. He travelled to Ethiopia for the first time in 1904, with support from the French banker, Bar ...
written in the
Ge'ez alphabet, recently studied by
David Appleyard. It is preserved by the Beta Israel today.
See also
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Qwara dialect
Bibliography
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David Appleyard, "Preparing a Comparative Agaw Dictionary", in ed. Griefenow-Mewis & Voigt, ''Cushitic & Omotic Languages: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium Berlin, Mar. 17-19, 1994'', Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln 1996. .
References
Jewish languages
Jews and Judaism in Ethiopia
Languages of Ethiopia
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