{"id":355857,"date":"2021-04-08T13:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T17:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=355857"},"modified":"2021-04-09T08:24:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:24:19","slug":"angoti-one-of-the-languages-spoken-in-benatsemai-district-in-ethiopias-southern-region-is-nearing-extinction-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/355857","title":{"rendered":"Ongota , one of the languages spoken in Benatsemai district in Ethiopia\u2019s southern region is nearing extinction (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ongota, one of the languages spoken in Benatsemai district in Ethiopia\u2019s Southern Nations Nationalities Peoples Region (SNNPR) is nearing extinction due to a drop in the number of fluent speakers of the language.<\/p>\n<p>Geida Qawale, is one of the 13 Berahaile ethnic people who speak the Ongota language. He claimed other languages, particularly that of Tsemai, dominated the Ongota language . \u201cThe language is rarely spoken as the native speakers meet on different occasions.\u201d Geida told EBC. Video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"563\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-klzH-IYoRM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ongota, one of the languages spoken in Benatsemai district in Ethiopia\u2019s Southern Nations Nationalities Peoples Region (SNNPR) is nearing extinction due to a drop in the number of fluent speakers of the language. Geida Qawale, is one of the 13 Berahaile ethnic people who speak the Ongota language. He claimed other languages, particularly that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":355858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Angoti.png?fit=251%2C206&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uzD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355857"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355941,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355857\/revisions\/355941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}