Argobba language
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Argobba is an Ethiopic language that was spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa. Writing in the mid-1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it." He added that it was closely related to Amharic, and that M. Cohen performed what research been done on Argobba.1
As of 2005, its status is unknown, but presumed extinct.
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- Edward Ullendorff, The Ethiopians: An Introduction to Country and People, second edition (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), pp. 131f.
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