Also Known As:
Birale, 'Ongota, Birelle, Ifa'ongota, "Shanqilla"
Dialects & Varieties
Recent Resources
A short video about the work of linguist Graziano Savà, who is documenting the Ongota language of Et
A 432 word list found in the Rosetta Project archives
Broad survey of the south Omo area from 2001, with a wordlist of Arbore, Tsamai and Ongota.
Bibliography
Bibliography of Vitality:
Savà, Graziano. 2003. "Ongota (Birale), a Moribund Language of Southwest Ethiopia." In Language death and language maintenance: theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches, edited by Mark Janse and Sijmen Tol. 171-188. John Benjamins Publ.
Bibliography of Locations:
Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
Bibliography of Context:
Dimmendaal, Gerrit J. and F. K. Erhard Voeltz. 2007. "Africa." In Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by Christopher Moseley. Routledge.