Gafat
Facts
- Language: Gafat
- Alternate names:
- Language code: gft
- Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, West Semitic, Ethiosemitic, South Ethiopic, Outer South Ethiopic, N-Group
- Number of speakers:
- Script:
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Introduction
The Gafat language is an extinct South Ethiopic language once spoken along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, and later, speakers pushed south of Gojjam in what is now East Welega Zone. Gafat was related to the Harari language and Gurage languages. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library.
The Gafat Verb
| Main affirmative past | qättälä |
|---|---|
| Main negative past | al-qättäla-m |
| Relative affirmative past | yä-qättälä |
| Relative negative past | y-al-qättälä |
| Main affirmative non-past | yəqätəl |
| Main negative non-past | t-iqätl-am |
| Relative affirmative non-past | yəqätəl |
| Relative negative non-past | a-yqätəl |