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Boon language

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Native to
  
Somalia

ISO 639-3
  
bnl

Native speakers
  
60 (2000)

Glottolog
  
boon1242

Region
  
Jilib District, Middle Jubba Region

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East? Boon

Boon or Af-Boon is a nearly extinct Cushitic language spoken by 59 people (as of 2000) in Jilib District, Middle Jubba Region, Somalia. In recent decades they have shifted to the Maay dialect of Jilib. All speakers are older than 60.

Ethnologue and Glottolog leave it unclassified within Eastern Cushitic. Blench (2006) leaves it as unclassified within Cushitic, as records are too fragmentary to allow more than that.

References

Boon language Wikipedia