Boon language
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Boon or Af-Boon is a nearly extinct Cushitic language spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in Jilib District, Middle Jubba Region of southern Somalia. In recent decades they have shifted to the Maay dialect of Jilib. All speakers were reported in the 1980s to be older than 60. Their traditional occupations are as hunters, leatherworkers and, more recently, shoemakers.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Classification
LambertiLua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. and following him Ethnologue and Glottolog leave the language unclassified within Eastern Cushitic.[1][2] Blench (2006) leaves it as unclassified within Cushitic, as records are too fragmentary to allow more than that.[3]
Phonology
Unlike in the Somali languages, nouns and pronouns in Boon often end in vowels, e.g. afi 'mouth', hididi 'vein', illa 'eye', luki 'leg'; hebla 'he' (cf. standard Somali af, xidid, il, lug; hebel 'someone').
Vocabulary
A number of words with no cognates in Somali but still in other Cushitic languages are noted by Lamberti:Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
- bafee 'lungs' ~ Oromo bafeed 'to breathe' (contrast Somali sambab 'lung')
- booGo 'jaw' ~ Oromo bookho (contrast Somali daan)
- dhinne 'rib' ~ Oromo čʼinnač (contrast Somali feer)
- helliiso 'liver' ~ Rendille xelesi (contrast Somali beer)
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- dimbaaro 'lip'
- dhuumma 'kidney'
- figgilo 'fingernail'
- gabo 'breast'
- maaka 'knee'
- muddur 'finger'
- naaju 'man'
- naata 'body, skin'
- simbiino 'tear'
Notes
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- ^ a b Boon at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Boon". Glottolog 4.3.
- ^ Classification of Afroasiatic, ms.
References
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lamberti, Marcello (1984). The Linguistic Situation in the Somali Democratic Republic. Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Somali Studies. Volume I. Linguistics and Literature. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. pp. 191–193.
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