Ta-Ne-Omotic · ISO 639-3 kbr
Kafa Language Kafi Noono
Kafa is a Ta-Ne-Omotic language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Kafa is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Kafa
Language family
- Ta-Ne-Omotic
- Kefoid
- South Gonga
- Kafa
Writing system
Latin script
About the Kafa language
Kafa (Kafi Noono) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 368th most spoken language in the world — just behind Ho (1.5 million) and ahead of Khams Tibetan (1.5 million). It belongs to the Ta-Ne-Omotic language family and, more precisely, to the South Gonga group within the South Gonga branch.
Where is Kafa spoken?
Kafa is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ethiopia (830,000).
Kafa is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Kafa is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 kbr.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.