ON ETHNOGRAPHICAL PHILOLOGY^ 
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of north latitude; but the same as that spoken by the people of Enarea. 
This statement, however correct as regards former times, requires to be ■ 
modified in the present day; for by tlie irruption of the Gallas, and their 
occupation of the table-land between the rivers Abai and Godjeb, the Gonga 
race has been cut through; and where not extirpated, divided into two 
parts, which have been respectively driven into the valleys of these two rivers. 
Ib Enarea, as throughout the whole table-land noribwaril, as far as the valley 
of the Abai, the Galla language has superseded that of the earlier Gongas. 
But further to the south and south-west, in regions stretching wide into the 
I interior of Africa, languages cognate with Cronga are still spoken. I was 
told of the countries of Derhabbo, Mocha and AftUo, beyond Kalfa, to tlie 
west, where cognate languages prevail. Tbo Gonga langnage, as spoken in 
ihewwtern portion of the valley of the Abai, U the only existing repre- 
MDtalive of a once-powerful kio^om, situate in the fork between the two 
branches ol the Blue River; the one the DeUhesa, coming from Enarcn, and 
the other the Abai. The affinity of the languages of Kafia, W«>raJta nod 
" olaitsa, to that of Gonga is manifest. That of the language of Yangaro is 
DoUo evident, but still may be traced.”—Phil. Transactions, No. 33, p. 93. 
Vocabularies:— 
!• luffa of Beke. Collected from a native of Bonga. 
2. Kafi’a of Krapf. Collected hi Shoa from a slave named Dilbo. These 
two vocabularies do not altogether coincide. Krapf’s words are priuicd in 
brackets in Beke’s table. 
MmaU-berichte uber dcr Verhandlungm der GeselkckafljuT Erdhtaide 
i'iHerlin. m^^JiUg. 
4. The Woratta of Beke, 
5. The Wolaitsa of Beke. 
6- The Yangaro of Beke. 
or Shankala Languages.—~Sx}c>k^n in Daban|a 
(Mithndntps), and Agaumider (Bdeo). 
1. The Dar-mitchegan Shangalla of Salt. Called also Dizzela. 
" the Shankula of Agaumider of Beke. 
iblip —Spoken on tlie Tacazze by a tribe calling 
1 , . vocabulary, undoubtedly representing this language, 
e ^ Salt 8, entitled the S/ianffallu, of the Taenzze. Notwithstanding the 
it 15 a different language from the Shankala of Agaumider, to which it 
“proposed, on the authority of Dr. Beke, to restrict the term. 
English. 
Shonkala. 
Doha. 
sun 
woka 
wall. 
moon 
beja 
terah. 
star 
beja 
shunda. 
wind 
zuba 
suueta. 
rain 
dinima 
eaiora. 
earth 
eoncuh 
hugga. 
sky 
rock 
goza 
jesa 
queyab. 
ia. 
stone 
dojesa 
uga. 
tree 
gea 
ilia. 
well 
quiah 
wabbcali. 
river 
epueba 
stiba. 
horse 
ferizze 
berasa. 
ass 
deguogga 
shanda. 
COU) 
kuossa 
aira. 
