Daasanach language

Daasanach
Native to	Ethiopia, Kenya
Region	Lower Omo River, Lake Turkana
Ethnicity	Daasanach
Native speakers	60,000 (2007 & 2009 censuses)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Western Omo–Tana Daasanach
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dsh
Glottolog	daas1238[2]

Daasanach (also known as Dasenech, Daasanech, Dathanaik, Dathanaic, Dathanik, Dhaasanac, Gheleba, Geleba, Geleb, Gelebinya, Gallab, Galuba, Gelab, Gelubba, Dama, Marille, Merile, Merille, Morille, Reshiat, Russia) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Daasanach in Ethiopia and Kenya whose homeland is along the Lower Omo River and on the shores of Lake Turkana.^[3]

Notes

1. Daasanach at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Daasanach". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Further reading

• Sasse, Hans-Jürgen. 1976. "Dasenech" in: Bender, M. Lionel (ed.): The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. pp. 196–221. East Lansing: African Studies Center.
• Tosco, Mauro. 2001. The Dhaasanac Language, Grammar, Texts and Vocabulary of a Cushitic Language of Ethiopia. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 17. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

External links

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Dhaasanac