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Kw'adza

Kw'adza

ExtinctAfro-Asiatic, South CushiticTanzaniaNone; the last speaker died in the late twentieth century0 documented words

Kw'adza was a South Cushitic language of Tanzania, related to but distinct from Iraqw. It is recorded as extinct, its last speaker having died between 1976 and 1999.

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History and language shift

Kw'adza was spoken by a small hunter-gatherer community that shifted to neighbouring languages during the twentieth century.

Revitalization

The language survives only in linguistic records. It is included here as a warning of what silence looks like.