Kafa language

Kafa
Kafi noono
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	in Keffa Zone
Native speakers	830,000 (2007 census)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Gonga Kafa–Shekkacho Kafa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kbr
Glottolog	kafa1242[2]

Kafa or Kefa (Kafi noono) is an Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia at the Keffa Zone.

A collection of proverbs in the language has been published by Mesfin Wodajo.^[3]

References

1. Ethiopia 2007 Census
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Kafa". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. 2012. Functions and Formal and Stylistic Features of Kafa Proverbs: Functional and Structural Approach. Lambert Academic Publishing.

Further reading

• Brockelmann, Carl (1950): Zur Grammatik der Kafa-Sprache. in: Brockelmann, Carl (ed.): Abbessinische Berichte über die Verhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Leipzig. pp 40–60.
• Cerulli, Enrico (1951), Studi etiopici. Vol. IV: La lingua Caffina. Roma: Istituto Per L'oriente.
• Fleming, Harold C. (1976), "Kefa (Gonga) Languages", in The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. Bender, M. L. (ed.)

External links

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Kefa