Alagwa

Facts

  • Language: Alagwa
  • Alternate names: Alagwaisi, Alagwase, Alawa, Chasi, Asi, Wasi, Kialagwa, Wasai, Uwassi
  • Language code: wbj
  • Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, South (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: <10,000
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Unwritten.

More information:

    Many villages have Islamic education and some children know Arabic and Swahili more fluently than Alagwa. Alagwa may be more readily recognized as Wasi. Muslim, traditional religion.

    Alagwa is spoken in Tanzania, Africa.