Resource: iso639-3/gft

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rdf:typelvont:Language
rdfs:commentThe Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. 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. Charles Beke collected a word list in the early 1840s with difficulty from the few who knew the language, having found that "the rising generation seem to be altogether ignorant of it; and those grown-up persons who profess to speak it are anything but familiar with it." The most recent accounts of this language are the reports of Wolf Leslau, who visited the region in 1947 and after considerable work was able to find a total of four people who could still speak the language. Edward Ullendorff, in his brief exposition on Gafat, concludes that as of the time of his writing, "one may ... ('en' language string)
rdfs:labelGafateg ('br' language string)
rdfs:labelGafat ('ca' language string)
rdfs:labelGafat language ('en' language string)
rdfs:labelGafat ('en' language string)
rdfs:labelGafat jezik ('hr' language string)
rdfs:labelJęzyk gafat ('pl' language string)
rdfs:seeAlsohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gafat_language
rdfs:seeAlsohttp://www.llmap.org/languages/gft.html
owl:sameAshttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Gafat_language
owl:sameAshttp://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Gafat_language
lvont:broaderhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Ethiopic_languages
lvont:broaderlexvo:iso639-5/sem
lvont:broaderhttp://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Ethiopic_languages
lvont:iso639P3PCodegft (string)
lvont:labellexvo:term/bre/Gafateg
lvont:labellexvo:term/cat/Gafat
lvont:labellexvo:term/eng/Gafat%20language
lvont:labellexvo:term/eng/Gafat
lvont:labellexvo:term/hrv/Gafat%20jezik
lvont:labellexvo:term/pol/J%C4%99zyk%20gafat
skos:prefLabelGafat ('en' language string)

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