Cushitic South Dahalo The Indian Ocean coastal strip with the capital city at Mombasa and inhabited by the Mijikenda and Swahili among others. ... This is a list of languages by number of first-language speakers. ... Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Map showing the distribution of Afro-Asiatic languages The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia. ... The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic. ...
Dahalo is an endangeredSouth Cushiticlanguage spoken by about 400 people in Kenya. ISO 639 is one of several international standards that lists short codes for language names. ... SIL International is a non-profit, faith-based, scientific organization with the main purpose to study, develop and document lesser-known languages for the purpose of expanding linguistic knowledge, promoting world literacy and aiding minority language development. ... This list of languages is alphabetical by English name. ... An endangered language is a language with so few surviving speakers that it is in danger of falling out of use. ... The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro_Asiatic languages phylum, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic. ...
It is largely spoken in the area of the Tana River. Many, if not all, of its speakers are bilingual, their other language being Swahili. The Tana River is the longest river in Kenya. ... The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ... Swahili (also called Kiswahili; see Kiswahili for a discussion of the nomenclature) is an agglutinative Bantu language widely spoken in East Africa. ...
It is distinguished by the use of clicks as phonemes (although it is neither related to nor currently in contact with the Khoisan languages). Clicks are stops produced with two articulatory closures in the oral cavity. ... In spoken language, a phoneme is a basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words (i. ... Map showing the distribution of the Khoi-San languages. ...
External links
Ethnologue entry for Dahalo (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=dal)
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