Dahalo
[également appelé Sanye, Guo Garimani,]Classification : Afro-Asiatic
·en danger
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En danger
100 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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<400
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"Dahalo is a language spoken in the Lamu district of Coast Province, Kenya, by a few hundred people of all ages [...] Concerning the actual number of Dahalo speakers, it is calculated in "a few hundreds" by Ehret (1980: 12), about 500 (followed by a question mark) by Sasse (1981: 199), while Zaborski "could estimate about 280 of them, though the upper limit may be about 400" (1987: 223-234). The same estimate of "less than 400" is made by Art Rilling of the Kenya Working Group of the Summer Institute of Linguistics... (Rilling 1986: 5). We think that the figure of 400 cannot greatly exceed the truth."
- DOMAINES D'UTILISATION
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- TENDANCES AU NIVEAU DES LOCUTEURS
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- TRANSMISSION
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- ATTITUDE DES LOCUTEURS
- Indifferent
- AUTRES LANGUES PARLÉES PAR LA COMMUNAUTÉ
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Swahili
- COMMENTAIRES SUR LE CONTEXTE DE LA LANGUE
"Informants repeatedly told us that, while in the olden days there were Dahalo who did not master Swahili, today everybody can at least understand it. As a matter of fact, all the Dahalo we met were bilingual, while nobody had a good command of any other language. In particular, English - Kenya's official language - was totally unknown [...] None of [the Dahalo] had learnt to read, and even the hypothesis of written material in Dahalo seems to have been largely misunderstood: 'They seemed personally disinterested though not opposed to the development of mother tongue materials.' (Rilling 1986: 15)"
- PLACES
- Coast Province, Kenya
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Lamu District of the Coast Province, Kenya.