Dime language

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Dime
Spoken in: Ethiopia 
Region: Debub (South) Omo Zone
Total speakers: 6,501 total; 4,785 monolinguals (1998)
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Omotic
  South Omotic
   Dime
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: dim
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Dime is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the northern part of the Selamago district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia. [1] The language has six case suffixes, in addition to an unmarked nominative. It is overwhelmingly suffixing, but uses prefixes for demonstratives. Phonologically, it is noteworthy for having velar and uvular fricative phonemes.[2] The basic word order is SOV (Subject Object Verb), as in other Omotic languages, indeed as in all the languages of the core of the Ethiopian Language Area.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. ^ Mulugeta Seyoum. 2008. A Grammar of Dime. Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT. ISBN: 9789078328520

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[edit] External links

http://www.lotpublications.nl/index3.html


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