Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopian Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages. Writing in the mid-1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it."The language is spoken in a number of pockets and has at least four regional variations in Harar (extinct), Aliyu Amba, Shewa Robit and Shonke.

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  • Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopian Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages. Writing in the mid-1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it."The language is spoken in a number of pockets and has at least four regional variations in Harar (extinct), Aliyu Amba, Shewa Robit and Shonke. (en)
  • Argobba (aʕargobba ʔaf) ist eine äthiosemitische Sprache und bildet mit dem Amharischen eine Gruppe (AA-Gruppe des Transversal-Südäthiosemitisch) innerhalb des südäthiosemitischen Sprachen. (de)
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  • Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopian Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages. Writing in the mid-1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it."The language is spoken in a number of pockets and has at least four regional variations in Harar (extinct), Aliyu Amba, Shewa Robit and Shonke. (en)
  • Argobba (aʕargobba ʔaf) ist eine äthiosemitische Sprache und bildet mit dem Amharischen eine Gruppe (AA-Gruppe des Transversal-Südäthiosemitisch) innerhalb des südäthiosemitischen Sprachen. (de)
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  • Argobba language (en)
  • Argobba (Sprache) (de)
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