(documentation WeytoLanguage EnglishLanguage "The WeytoLanguage is a language of unknown classification from Ethiopia. SIL code: WOY. ISO 639-2: mis. Population: Ethnic population: 1,631: 1,519 (93%) speak Amharic as mother tongue, others speak other mother tongues. 1,532 speak no other language. Region: Lake Tana region. Alternate names: WAYTO, WEYT'O. Comments: The former language was possibly Eastern Sudanic or an Awngi variety (Bender 1983), or Cushitic (Bender, Bowen, Cooper and Ferguson 1976:14). The people now speak Amharic. Literacy rate in second language: 16.2%. Hunters: hippopotamus. Extinct.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") |
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