What is Agaw languages?
{{Infobox language family |altname=Central Cushitic |name=Agaw |region=[[Ethiopia]] and central [[Eritrea]] |ethnicity=[[Agaw people]] |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=[[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]] |child1=[[Awngi language|Awngi]] |child2=[[Bilen language|Bilen]] |child3=[[Qimant language|Qimant]] |child4=[[Xamtanga language|Xamtanga]] |glotto=cent2193 |glottorefname=Agaw }} The '''Agaw''', or '''Central Cushitic''', languages are a small branch of [[Cushitic languages]]. They are spoken mainly in [[Ethiopia]]. ==Languages== * [[Awngi language|Awngi]] (South Agaw) spoken southwest of [[Lake Tana]], the largest, with over 350,000 speakers :([[Kunfal dialect|Kunfal]], spoken west of Lake Tana, is not well recorded but is probably a [[dialect]] of Awngi)<ref>Joswig/Mohammed (2011)</ref> * Northern Agaw: **Bilen–Xamtanga: *** [[Bilen language|Bilen]] (North) spoken (70,000 speakers) in [[Eritrea]] around the town of [[Keren, Eritrea|Keren]] and eastern [[Sudan]] around the town of [[Kassala]] *** [[Xamtanga language|Xamtanga]] (Central Agaw; also called Khamir, Khamta) 143,000 speakers in the North [[Amhara Region]] ** [[Qimant language|Qimant]] (Western Agaw) nearly extinct, spoken by the [[Qemant]] in [[Semien Gondar Zone]] ::(dialects [[Qwara dialect|Qwara]] – nearly extinct, spoken by [[Beta Israel]] formerly living in Qwara, now in [[Israel]]; [[Kayla dialect|Kayla]] – extinct, formerly spoken by some [[Beta Israel]], transitional between Qimant and Xamtanga) ==References== {{reflist}} {{Cushitic languages}} [[Category:Cushitic languages]] [[Category:Languages of Ethiopia]] [[Category:Languages of Eritrea]] {{stub}}