Boro language (Ethiopia)
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Boro | ||
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Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
Total speakers: | 19,878 total, 18,567 monolinguals (1998) | |
Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Omotic Gonga-Gimojan Gonga Boro |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | bwo | |
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Boro (also known as Bworo, Shinasha, Scinacia) is a North Omotic language spoken in western Ethiopia. Its speakers live in two areas north of the Abay River: in the Dibate and Wenbera districts, which are parts of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.[1]
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- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.