The Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library.

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  • The Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library. Charles Beke collected a word list in the early 1840s with difficulty from the few who knew the language, having found that "the rising generation seem to be altogether ignorant of it; and those grown-up persons who profess to speak it are anything but familiar with it. " The most recent accounts of this language are the reports of Wolf Leslau, who visited the region in 1947 and after considerable work was able to find a total of four people who could still speak the language. Edward Ullendorff, in his brief exposition on Gafat, concludes that as of the time of his writing, "one may ... expect that it has now virtually breathed its last."
  • El gafat és una llengua etiòpica extingida que va ser parlada, abans de la seva substitució per l'amhàric, a les vores del riu Abbai fins a la dècada dels 1960 i de la qual no es disposa sinó d'una molt escassa documentació: una traducció moderna (s. XVII-XVIII) del Càntic dels càntics i les informacions fornides per quatre informadors ancians al etiopicista Wolf Leslau durant la seva visita a la zona l'any 1947. El gafat és classificat, ensems amb el soddo o kistane, dins el grup n, branca de l'etiòpic meridional exterior.
  • Język gafat – wymarły język semicki z południowej gałęzi języków etiopskich, używany dawniej na terenach dzisiejszej Etiopii w południowej części dorzecza Nilu Błękitnego. Język gafat został wyparty przez język amharski.
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  • Extinct
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  • The Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library.
  • El gafat és una llengua etiòpica extingida que va ser parlada, abans de la seva substitució per l'amhàric, a les vores del riu Abbai fins a la dècada dels 1960 i de la qual no es disposa sinó d'una molt escassa documentació: una traducció moderna (s. XVII-XVIII) del Càntic dels càntics i les informacions fornides per quatre informadors ancians al etiopicista Wolf Leslau durant la seva visita a la zona l'any 1947.
  • Język gafat – wymarły język semicki z południowej gałęzi języków etiopskich, używany dawniej na terenach dzisiejszej Etiopii w południowej części dorzecza Nilu Błękitnego. Język gafat został wyparty przez język amharski.
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  • Gafat language
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