Tsamai language

Tsamai
Tsamako
Native to Ethiopia
Region Omo River region
Native speakers
 18,000 (2007 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tsb
Glottolog tsam1247  (Tsamai)[2]
dume1236  (Dume)[3]

Tsamai (also known as Ts'amay, S'amai, Tamaha, Tsamako, Tsamakko, Bago S'amakk-Ulo) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia.[4] Tsamai is a member of the Dullay dialect continuum. Cule (Kuile, Kule) and evidently Dume (pseudo-pygmies) were apparently varieties.

Notes

  1. ↑ Ethiopia 2007 Census
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tsamai". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Dume". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  4. ↑ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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