Tanzania: Recollecting Words And Expressions In Aasá, A Dead Language In Tanzania

Tanzania: Recollecting Words And Expressions In Aasá, A Dead Language In Tanzania Sara Petrollino, and Maarten Mous, 2010   Aasá, a Cushitic language, was formerly spoken by a hunter-gatherer community that constitutes a servant group to the Maasai in northern Tanzania. Given that none of the ethnic Aasá surveyed in this study had ever spoken this language, their memory of it is remarkable and raises questions about how it is remembered. In this article, we consider what our corpus of...

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