Mursi language

Mursi
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Central Omo
Ethnicity	Mursi
Native speakers	7,400 (2007 census)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Surmic South Southeast Suri–Mursi Mursi
Writing system	Ethiopic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	muz
Glottolog	murs1242[2]

Mursi (also Dama, Merdu, Meritu, Murzi, Murzu) is a Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Mursi people, in the central Omo region of southwest Ethiopia. It is similar to Suri, spoken in most of the immediately surrounding area.

Notes

1. Ethiopia 2007 Census
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mursi". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Bibliography

• Bender, M. Lionel and David Turton. 1976. "Mursi". The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp. 533–561.
• D. Turton, M. Yigezu and O. Olibui. 2008. Mursi-English-Amharic Dictionary. Addis Ababa: Culture and Arts Society of Ethiopia.

External links

• Mursi basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Mursi