Asa people

{{Short description|Ethnic group from Manyara Region of Tanzania}}

{{About|the ethnic group in Tanzania

The Assa are an ethnic group based on the Maasai Steppe in Manyara Region, Tanzania. In 1999, they were estimated to number around 300 individuals, after the eastern Assa were assimilated into the Maasai.[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aas Ethnologue report for language code: aas] The Assa once spoke the Aasáx language, ambiguously called "Dorobo", which probably belonged to the Afro-Asiatic language family,[https://archive.today/20120710061552/http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=aas Linguist List - Description of Aasáx]