Classification: Afro-Asiatic
·vulnerable
Oromo (Waata), Sanya, Wasanye, Ariangulu, Langulo, Waata, Waat | ||
Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, Lowland East Cushitic | ||
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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “Marginalisation of the Waata Oromo hunter-gatherers of Kenya: insider and outsider perspectives” (194-216) . Kassam, Aneesa and Bashuna, Ali Balla (2004)
<20,000
Oromo
"[The Waata] live in scattered territorial groups along the Tana and Galana rivers and in the Taru Desert in eastern Kenya, on the Kenyan coast, in Isiolo and Marsabit districts in northern Kenya, and in parts of souther, central and western Ethiopia, as well as on the shores of Lake Tana. They may also extend into Tanzania."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press