Quara language

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Name (Hebrew)
שפת קוארה
Name (Latin)
Quara language
Other forms of name
Khwara language
Kwara language
Qwara language
See Also From tracing topical name
Agau language
Cushitic languages
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q56736
Library of congress: sh 85109472
Wikipedia description:

Qwara, or Qwareña (called "Falasha" (Hwarasa) in some older sources), was one of two Agaw dialects, spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel (Jews of Ethiopia) of Qwara Province. It is a dialect of Qimant. It is nearly extinct. Several early Falashan manuscripts, using the Ge'ez script, exist; in more recent times, the language has been recorded by several linguists and travellers, starting with Flad in 1866. Qwareña was on the decline in the early 20th century because it was being replaced by Amharic. During Operation Solomon, most of its remaining speakers were airlifted to Israel, where it continues to lose ground to Modern Hebrew.

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