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'Dahlik' (Dahaalik, Dahalik, Dahlak) is a newly discovered language spoken exclusively in Eritrea off the coast of Massawa, on three islands in the Dahlak Archipelago: Dahlak Kebir, Nora and Dehil. It has around 2,500–3,000 speakers.
It belongs to the Ethio-Semitic language group and is quite closely related to Tigre and Tigrinya. It is mutually intelligible with Tigre (see Shaebia below), but, according to Simeone-Senelle, is sufficiently different to be considered a separate language.

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★ Simeone-Senelle, Marie-Claude. 2000. 'Situation linguistique dans le sud de l'Erythrée', in Wolff/Gensler (eds) ''Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress of African Linguistics, 1997'', Köln: Köppe, p. 261-276.

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★ Shaebia: Dahlak, a newly discovered Afro-Semitic language spoken exclusively in Eritrea

★ Shaebia: Dahalik - Mysterious Tongue of the Dahlak Islands

★ Aljazeera: Lost Eritrean language put on record