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Ongota | colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow" style="font-size:120%"|Ongota (iifa ʕongota) | | valign="top"|Spoken in: | Ethiopia | | valign="top"|Region: | Southern Omo zone, Southern Region | | valign="top"|Total speakers: | 12 | | valign="top"|Ranking: | Not in top 100 | valign="top"|Genetic
classification: | Unclassified, probably Afro-Asiatic
Ongota | | colspan="2" bgcolor="yellow"|Language codes | | a href="/encyclopedia/ISO-639" title="ISO 639">ISO 639-2 | mis | | a href="/encyclopedia/SIL" title="SIL">SIL | BXE | | a href="/encyclopedia/Linguasphere" title="Linguasphere">Linguasphere | 07-AAA-aa | Ongota (also known as Birale/Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia. In 2000, it was said to be in a state of decline with only 8 elderly mother tongue speakers, most other speakers having adopted the Ts'amakko language instead. The grammar follows a Subject Object Verb word order. It is probably Afroasiatic, but has not been definitively classified. As of 2004, it is being studied by Aklilu Yilma of Addis Ababa University. Bibliography - Fleming, Harold 2002. "Ongota Lexicon: English-Ongota". Mother Tongue, VII, pp. 39-65.
- Mikesh, P. and Seelig, J.M. 1992. "Ongota or Birale: a moribund language of Gemu-Gofa (Ethiopia)". Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, 3,3:181-225.
- Sav, Graziano and Mauro Tosco 2000. A sketch of Ongota, a dying language of southwest Ethiopia. Studies in African Linguistics 29.2.59-136.
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