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Ongota (also known as Birale Birayle) is a moribund language of southwest Ethiopia. In 2012 UNESCO reported that only 12 elderly native speakers remain the rest of their small village on the west bank of the Weito River having adopted the Tsamai language instead. The default word order is subject–object–verb. It is probably Afroasiatic but has not been definitively classified.