Agaw
Central Cushitic
Ethnicity:Agaw people
Geographic
distribution:
Ethiopia and central Eritrea
Linguistic classification:Afro-Asiatic
Subdivisions:
Awngi
Bilen
Qimant
Xamtanga

The Agaw, or Central Cushitic, languages are a small branch of Cushitic languages. They are spoken mainly in Ethiopia.

Languages

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(Kunfal, spoken west of Lake Tana, is not well recorded but is probably a dialect of Awngi)[1]
(dialects Qwara – nearly extinct, spoken by Beta Israel formerly living in Qwara, now in Israel; Kayla – extinct, formerly spoken by some Beta Israel, transitional between Qimant and Xamtanga)

References

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  1. Joswig/Mohammed (2011)