Boro language (Ethiopia)

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Boro
Spoken in: Ethiopia
Total speakers: 19,878 total, 18,567 monolinguals (1998)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Omotic
  North Omotic
   Gonga-Gimojan
    Gonga
     Boro
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: bwo

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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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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