Leslau Wolf. Étude descriptive et comparative du gafat (Éthiopien méridional)

Paris: Librairie Klincksieck, 1956. — xx + 277 p. — (Collection linguistique publiée par la Société de Linguistique de Paris 57).The Gafat language is an extinct South Ethiopian Semitic language that was once spoken along Abbay River (Blue Nile) in Ethiopia, and later speakers pushed south of Gojjam in modern day Eastern Wellega Oromoia region. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library (university of Oxford, England). The most recent accounts of this language are the reports of Wolf Leslau (1906-2006), who visited the region in 1947 and after considerable work was able to find a total of four people who could still speak the language. This book contains a grammar and a lexicon of Gafat and it is the last and the best documentation of that extinct language.