ISO 639-3 · daldal
Afroasiatic family
Dahalo
Dahalo is a language of the Cushitic branch (Afroasiatic), spoken in Kenya. Wikidata counts about 400 speakers. Wikidata describes it as “Cushitic language spoken by Dahalo people on the coast of Kenya, near the mouth of the Tana River”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
dal- Glottocode
daha1245- Family
- Afroasiatic
- EGIDS
- 8a Moribund
- UNESCO
- Severely endangered
- Wikipedia
- 20 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
1countries
—scripts
2levels in the tree
8aEGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Dahalo |
|---|---|
| Also called | Dahalo language |
| All speakers | 400 |
Vitality
EGIDS 8a Moribund8a
Endangered. Children are no longer learning it everywhere, or only grandparents speak it — EGIDS 6b to 8b.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Severely endangered
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Afroasiatic to Dahalo
The branches above Dahalo, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Countries
Also spoken in Kenya
engEnglishIndo-European · 1.13 bn0 · InternationalaraArabicAfroasiatic · 315.4 mSafepanPunjabiunclassified · 125 mSafeswhKiswahiliNiger–Congo · 98.3 m1 · NationaltamTamilDravidian · 83 m2 · ProvincialsomSomaliAfroasiatic · 16.2 m1 · NationalswaSwahiliNiger–Congo · 15.4 mkikGikuyuNiger–Congo · 6.6 m5 · DevelopingayhHadhrami ArabicAfroasiatic · 4.5 m6a · VigorouskamKambaNiger–Congo · 3.9 m4 · Educational