TerraverbaAn atlas of the world’s languages 简体中文 Open the atlas

Aasax

Aasax was an Afro-Asiatic language once spoken in Tanzania.

See it on the globeOpen in the family tree

Aasax · 4.0°S 36.9°E

The Asa (Aasá) language, commonly rendered Aasax (also rendered as Aasá, Aasáx, Aramanik, Asak, Asax, Assa, Asá), is an Afroasiatic language formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania. The language is extinct; ethnic Assa in northern Tanzania remember only a few words they overheard their elders use, and none ever used it themselves. Little is known of the language; what is recorded was probably Aasa lexical words used in a register of Maasai, similar to the mixed language Mbugu.

From Wikipedia · Asa language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Aasax

MeaningWordRomanization
manhat-uk
womanmaeet
eyeila-t
bloodsaʔaka
watermaʔa
dogwa-t

Most similar languages

Vocabulary

Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

Nearby languages

Elsewhere

Something wrong here? Tell us

Glottolog · aasa1238 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · aas