Kayla
- This article is about the Kayla language. Kayla was also a character on Sesame Street.
Kayla or Qwara is a Cushitic language formerly used by the Beta Israel, or Ethiopian Jews. One of the many hundreds of languages found in Ethiopia, it is now considered extinct, since most of its speakers have emigrated to Israel and now speak Hebrew, or Amharic, Ethiopia's official language.
Like most other Jewish languages, Kayla contained a large number of Hebrew loanwords. While most Jewish langauges are written using variations on the Hebrew alphabet, Kayla, like most of Geez-related languages in Ethiopia, was written using a variation of the Geez alphabet.
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