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Name: Birale
Alternate Names: 'Ongota; Birelle; Ifa'ongota; "Shanqilla"; Ongota
Spoken in: Ethiopia
Number of speakers: 8. Ethnic population: 89 (2000 M. Brenzinger) (Ethnologue)
Number of speakers: 8 (UNESCO)
Number of speakers: 19 (World Oral Literature Project)
Code: bxe
Code Authority: ISO 639-3
Code Standard: SIL
Families: Afro-Asiatic
Parent Subgroup: Unclassified Afroasiatic (unaf)

Endangerment Status


Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered
Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct
Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered

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