Ongota

Alternate Names

Ongota, “Birale” (pej.), “Birelle” (pej.), Ifa, “Shanqilla” (pej.)

Identifiers
ISO code

bxe

Glottocode

bira1253

Metadata
Countries of origin

Ethiopia

Also spoken in

Ethiopia

Writing systems

Unwritten

Linguistic genealogy

Afro-Asiatic

EGIDS Status

8b - Nearly extinct

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