Meanings
- The language (often considered to be Southern Cushitic) formerly spoken by the Asa people of Tanzania.
For example, Aasax, a Southern Cushitic language, which used to be spoken by a hunter gatherer group who once lived in northern Tanzania (the last Aasax speaker died in 1967, according to Winter 1979) is now extinct […]
1996, Margaret Akinyi Obondo, From Trilinguals to Bilinguals?, page 271 more example
Another article on Afroasiatic deals with Southern Cushitic Aasax. It is by Jürgen Christoph Winter who is practically the only man who has been able to collect some significant data on this language which is most probably extinct now.
1981, Monographic Journals of the Near East: Afroasiatic linguistics
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Aasax. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Aasax
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