The Rer Bare (or Rerebere, Adona) are a tribe in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region on the Wabi Shebelle river, near Somalia, who currently speak Somali. According to the Ethnologue, "it is uncertain if they spoke a different language earlier"; if so, it is extinct. It seems to have been first mentioned in print by Lionel Bender in 1975:
D. W. Mcclure, Sr. first reported to me the presence of Sudaneseimmigrants on the Wabi Shebelle River at Gode in the eastern Ogaden. They are said to have their own language, bearing the given name [Rerebere]. Later Taye Reya informed me that Sudanese immigrants are found along the Ganale and Dawa Rivers as well, and that they are referred to by the Somali as rer bare (rer means sub-tribe in Somali.) They are also known as adona, and they speak Somali as well as their own language... I cannot say with certainty whether they speak one or more languages of what any of them is... So far no linguistic data has come my way.
Bibliography
Bender, M. L. The Ethiopian Nilo-Saharans. Artistic Printers, Addis Ababa 1975.
External links
Ethnologue - Rer Bare (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=RER)
The original language of the Samaritans was the vernacular of Palestine, that is Hebrew.
The colloquial language of the Samaritans from the last centuries before Christ up to the first centuries of the Arab domination was a dialect of western Aramaic largely peculiar to Palestine.
What was formerly called the Samaritan language rested almost exclusively upon the polyglot edition of the Samaritan Targum [see below], and most of the lexical and grammatical peculiarities which were ascribed to this idiom have been deduced solely from the incredibly corrupt manuscripts of the Targum.
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