Ongota: A Decisive Language in African Prehistory

by Harold C. Fleming

A international team re-discovered a tiny tribe of hunters, first discovered a century ago in extreme southern Ethiopia but never seen again. Now dying out, Ongotan culture and language are kept alive by 20 old men who resist the pressures of two outside societies. A short description of their language and ethnography (published elsewhere) are given more fully. The examination of Ongota reveals an Afrasian (Afro-Asiatic, Hamito-Semitic) language of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447051248
• ISBN13: 9783447051248
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 214 Pages