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- Weyto_language abstract "Weyto is a speculative extinct language thought to have been spoken in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia by the Weyto, a small group of hippopotamus hunters who now speak Amharic. The Weyto language was first mentioned by the Scottish traveler James Bruce, who spoke Amharic, passed through the area about 1770 and reported that \"the Wayto speak a language radically different from any of those in Abyssinia,\" but was unable to obtain any \"certain information\" on it, despite prevailing upon the king to send for two Weyto men for him to ask questions, which they would \"neither answer nor understand\" even when threatened with hanging. The next European to report on them, Eugen Mittwoch, described them as uniformly speaking a dialect of Amharic (Mittwoch 1907). This report was confirmed by Marcel Griaule when he passed through in 1928, although he added that at one point a Weyto sang an unrecorded song \"in the dead language of the Wohitos\" whose meaning the singer himself did not understand, except for a handful of words for hippopotamus body parts which, he says, had remained in use. This Amharic dialect is described by Marcel Cohen (1939) as featuring a fair number of words derived from Amharic roots but twisted in sound or meaning in order to confuse outsiders, making it a sort of argot; in addition to these, it had a small number of Cushitic loanwords not found in standard Amharic, and a large number of Arabic loanwords mainly related to Islam. Of the substantial wordlist collected by Griaule, Cohen only considered six terms to be etymologically obscure: šəlkərít \"fish-scale\", qəntat \"wing\", čəgəmbit \"mosquito\", annessa \"shoulder\", ənkies \"hippopotamus thigh\", wazəməs \"hippopotamus spine.\" By 1965, the visiting anthropologist Frederick Gamst found \"no surviving native words, not even relating to their hunting and fishing work tasks.\" (Gamst 1965.)The paucity of the data available has not prevented speculation on the classification of their original language; Cohen suggested that it might have been either an Agaw language or a non-Amharic Semitic language, while Dimmendaal (1989) says it \"probably belonged to Cushitic\" (as does Agaw), and Gamst (1965) says \"...it can be assumed that if the Wäyto did not speak Amharic 200 years ago, their language must have been Agäw...\" According to the Ethnologue, Bender et al. (1976) saw it as Cushitic, while Bender 1983 saw it as either Eastern Sudanic or Awngi. It thus effectively remains unclassified, largely for lack of data, but possibly related to Agaw.".
- Weyto_language iso6393Code "woy".
- Weyto_language spokenIn Ethiopia.
- Weyto_language spokenIn Lake_Tana.
- Weyto_language wikiPageID "1187068".
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- Weyto_language wikiPageOutDegree "34".
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- Weyto_language wikiPageRevisionID "16941723".
- Weyto_language wikiPageRevisionID "707829510".
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Agaw_languages.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Amharic.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Arabic.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Argot.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Awngi_language.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Extinct_languages_of_Africa.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Ethiopia.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Unattested_language.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Cushitic_languages.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Dallas.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Sudanic_languages.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Ethiopia.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Ethnologue.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Eugen_Mittwoch.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Extinct_language.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Frederick_Gamst.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Hippopotamus.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Islam.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink James_Bruce.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Lake_Tana.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Lionel_Bender_(linguist).
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Loanword.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Marcel_Cohen.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Marcel_Griaule.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Nancy_Dorian.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Oxford_University_Press.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink SIL_International.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Semitic_languages.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Texas.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Unclassified_language.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Weyto_language.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLink Weyto_people.
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Weyto Language".
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Weyto language".
- Weyto_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Weyto".
- Weyto_language ethnicity Weyto_people.
- Weyto_language extinct "19".
- Weyto_language family "unclassifiable".
- Weyto_language familycolor "unclassified".
- Weyto_language glotto "weyt1237".
- Weyto_language glottorefname "Weyto".
- Weyto_language iso "woy".
- Weyto_language name "Weyt'o".
- Weyto_language region "Lake Tana, Ethiopia".
- Weyto_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_language.
- Weyto_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Weyto_language subject Category:Extinct_languages_of_Africa.
- Weyto_language subject Category:Languages_of_Ethiopia.
- Weyto_language subject Category:Unattested_language.
- Weyto_language hypernym Language.
- Weyto_language type Language.
- Weyto_language type Diacritic.
- Weyto_language type Language.
- Weyto_language type Redirect.
- Weyto_language type Language.
- Weyto_language type Thing.
- Weyto_language type Q315.
- Weyto_language type Q34770.
- Weyto_language comment "Weyto is a speculative extinct language thought to have been spoken in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia by the Weyto, a small group of hippopotamus hunters who now speak Amharic.".
- Weyto_language label "Weyt'o language".
- Weyto_language label "Weyto language".
- Weyto_language sameAs Q3915918.
- Weyto_language sameAs Weytoeg.
- Weyto_language sameAs Lenga_weyto.
- Weyto_language sameAs m.04flsb.
- Weyto_language sameAs Kiweyto.
- Weyto_language sameAs Q3915918.
- Weyto_language wasDerivedFrom Weyto_language?oldid=16941723.
- Weyto_language wasDerivedFrom Weyto_language?oldid=707829510.
- Weyto_language isPrimaryTopicOf Weyto_language.
- Weyto_language name "Weyt'o".