The Qimant language is a highly endangered language spoken by a small and elderly fraction of the Qemant people in northern Ethiopia, mainly in the Chilga woreda in Semien Gondar Zone between Gondar and Metemma.
Qimant is the original language of the Qemant people of North Gondar Zone, Ethiopia.
Although the ethnic population of the Qemant was 172,327 at the 1994 census, only a very small fraction of these speak the language nowadays.
Qimant is not spoken in public or even within the home as a means of daily communication anymore, but is reduced to a secret code.
The maximum syllable structure in Qimant is CVC, which implies that consonant clusters are only allowed word-medially.
[11] As a consequence of the looming language death, many items of the vocabulary are already replaced by Amharic words.