Dizin language
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| Dizin | ||
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Total speakers: | 21,075, 17,583 monolinguals (1998 census) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Maji Dizin |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | mdx | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Dizin (often called “Dizi” or “Maji” in the literature) is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the area around Maji in western Ethiopia. The 1998 census listed 21,075 speakers, with 17,583 identified as monolinguals. [1]
The language has basic SOV (Subject-Object-Verb) word order, tones, and is largely suffixing.
Dizin, together with the Sheko and Nayi languages, is part of a cluster of languages variously called "Maji" or "Dizoid".
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] References
- Allan, Edward. 1976. Dizi. In The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, M. Lionel Bender, ed., pp. 377-392. East Lansing, Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University.
- Beachy, Marvin Dean. 2005. An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology. Unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington.
- Breeze, Mary. 1988. Phonological features of Gimira and Dizi. In Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst and Fritz Serzisko (eds.), Cushitic - Omotic: papers from the International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic languages, Cologne, January 6-9, 1986, 473-487. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
- Muldrow, William. 1976. Languages of the Maji area. In Language in Ethiopia, ed. by Bender, Bowen, Cooper, and Ferguson, pp. 603-607. Oxford University Press.
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