Sebat Bet Gurage language
| Sebat Bet Gurage | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | West Gurage Zone |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 440,000)[1] |
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Afro-Asiatic
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| Ethiopic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
sgw |
| Glottolog |
seba1251[2] |
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Overview
One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Zone:
- Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties
- Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene
- Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhaha Wolene
- Gura is spoken in Goro woreda
- Gumer language (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer
- Inor (Enemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner
- Gyeto, Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor.
Notes
- ↑ Sebat Bet Gurage at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Sebat Bet Gurage". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Further reading
- Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 373–397.
- Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 403–427.
External links
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Chaha
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