Boon language
Encyclopedia
Boon or Af-Boon is a nearly extinct
East Cushitic language
spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in Jilib District
, Middle Jubba Region
, Somalia
. In recent decades they have shifted to the Maay dialect of Jilib. All speakers are older than 60.
Language death
In linguistics, language death is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language variety is decreased, eventually resulting in no native and/or fluent speakers of the variety...
East Cushitic language
East Cushitic languages
The Lowland East Cushitic languages comprise two dozen languages of the Cushitic family within Afro-Asiatic. They are spoken mainly in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia, and by Cushitic groups in northern Kenya....
spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in Jilib District
Jilib District
Jilib District is a district in the southern Jubbada Dhexe of Somalia. Its capital lies at Jilib....
, Middle Jubba Region
Jubbada Dhexe
Middle Juba is an administrative region in southern Somalia. With its capital at Bu'aale, it is located in the Jubaland autonomous region.Middle Juba is bordered by Somali regions of Gedo, Bay, Lower Shabele and Jubbada Hoose and the Indian Ocean...
, Somalia
Somalia
Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...
. In recent decades they have shifted to the Maay dialect of Jilib. All speakers are older than 60.