Afro-Asiatic · East Africa

Zay

Shifting

Zay is documented so far only to the level of long grammar.

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FamilyAfro-Asiatic
StatusShifting
DocumentationLong grammar
ISO 639-3zwa
Glottocodezayy1238

Spoken in Ethiopia

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Closest relatives

Languages sharing the deepest branch of Afro-Asiatic's family tree with Zay.

  1. Harari

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  2. Silt'e

    Not endangered
    Grammar sketch

  3. Wolane

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  4. Amharic

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  5. Argobba

    Threatened
    Long grammar

  6. Gafat

    Extinct
    Grammar sketch

  7. Inoric

    Not endangered
    Long grammar

  8. Kistane

    Not endangered
    Grammar

Reference data for Zay from Glottolog 5.2.1, licensed CC-BY-4.0. Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Bank, Sebastian. 2025. Glottolog 5.2.1. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (Available online at https://glottolog.org)