Alagwa is a member of the South Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is spoken by about 10,000 people mainly in the Kondoa District in the northwest of the Dodoma Region in central Tanzania. There are also some Alagwa speakers in the nearby Hanang District of the Manyara Region
Alagwa is also known as Alawa, Asi Alagwase, Alagwaisa, Chasi, Hhagiree, Kialagwa, Kichase, Uassi, Waasi or Wasi. Alagwa speakers call their language Alaagwa’isa.
Download an alphabet chart for Alagwa (Excel)
Details of the Alagwa alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)
Information about Alagwa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagwa_language
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagwa
https://www.101lasttribes.com/tribes/alagwa.html
https://www.academia.edu/825378/Basic_Alagwa_syntax
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 06.10.26. Last modified: 06.10.26
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