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Aasa (other)
Aasa may refer to: * Aasá language, an extinct language of Tanzania * Aasá people, an ethnic group of Tanzania AASA may stand for: * All Assamese Students' Association, New Delhi, India * American Association of School Administrators, United States * Australian Auto Sport Alliance * Automobile Association of South Africa * Australasian Animal Studies Association, Australia Places * Aasa, Estonia, a village in Estonia * Aasa Buttar, a small village in the Sri Muktsar Sahib district of Eastern Punjab People * Aasa Helgesen (1877–1968), Norwegian midwife and politician * Amanda Aasa (born 1996), Swedish singer and songwriter See also * Asa (other) * Åsa (other), a Scandinavian given name * {{disambiguation, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aasá Language
The Asa (Aasá) language, commonly rendered Aasax (also rendered as Aasá, Aasáx, Aramanik, Asak, Asax, Assa, Asá), is an Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania. The language is extinct language, extinct; ethnic Assa in northern Tanzania remember only a few words they overheard their elders use, and none ever used it themselves. Little is known of the language; what is recorded was probably Aasa lexical words used in a Linguistic register, register of Maasai language, Maasai, similar to the mixed language Mbugu language, Mbugu. Classification Asa is usually classified as Cushitic languages, Cushitic, most closely related to Kw'adza language, Kw'adza. However, it might have retained a non-Cushitic layer from an earlier language shift. The Aramanik (Laramanik) people once spoke Asa, but shifted to Nandi languages, Nandi (as opposed to Maasai). Vocabulary Asa is known from three primary sources: two vocabulary lists from 1904 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |