Chara language
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| Chara | ||
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Total speakers: | 6,932 total, 5,556 monolinguals (1998) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Gonga-Gimojan Gimojan Ometo-Gimira Chara |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | cra | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Chara is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Central Cafa Region of Ethiopia just north of the Omo River. [1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue entry for Chara
- Aklilu Yilma. 2002. "Sociolinguistic Survey Report on the Chara Language of Ethiopia," Summer Institute of Linguistics Electronic Survey Reports 2002-032. (available online) [includes sketch of phonology and nominal morphology]
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