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Zay

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Zay

Summary

Zay is a language[1]. Zay ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Zay is in the country of Ethiopia[3].
  • Zay's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Zay's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Zay is a type of Ethiopian Semitic[6].
  • Zay's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Zay language[7].
  • Zay's UNESCO language status is recorded as 4 severely endangered[8].
  • Zay's indigenous to is recorded as Oromia Region[9].
  • Zay's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/ZWA[10].
  • Zay's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6b Threatened[11].
  • Zay's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–object–verb[12].

Why It Matters

Zay ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (56 views/month).[2] Zay is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Ethiopia

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . unesco.org. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Indigenous to → Oromia Region
    Topic's main category → Category:Zay language
    Ethnologue language status → 6b Threatened
    Instance of → language, modern language
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007291956005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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