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Ware language

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Region
  
Lake Victoria

ISO 639-3
  
wre (retired)

Glottolog
  
ware1252

Extinct
  
(date missing)

Linguist list
  
wre (retired)

Language family
  
Niger–Congo Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Bantoid Bantu Northeast Bantu Great Lakes Bantu Logooli–Kuria (E.40) Ware

Ware is an extinct Bantu language near Lake Victoria in East Africa.

ISO controversy

When an SIL team failed to find any speakers, Ethnologue retired the ISO code, apparently not realizing the language was known to be extinct.

References

Ware language Wikipedia