Gedeo language
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| Gedeo | ||
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Region: | Central highland area | |
| Total speakers: | 637,082 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Cushitic East Highland Gedeo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | drs | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Gedeo is the name of a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken in south central Ethiopia. Alternate names for the langauge include Derasa, Deresa, Darassa, Geddeo, Derasanya, Darasa. The area where it is spoken is roughly the central highland area, southwest of Dilla and east of Lake Abaya. [1]
The languages has SOV word order. Verbs are marked for person, number, and gender of subject. Verbs are marked for voice: active, causative, middle, and passive.
The New Testament was published in the Gedeo language in 1986, using the Ethiopian syllabary.
[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 Alaba-K'abeena
- Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. "Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses," Journal of Ethiopian Studies 14: 131-76.
- Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Gedeo (Derasa) verb morphology and morphophonemics," The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 2. Cologne: Institut für Afrikanistik. Pages 82-109.
[edit] External Links
- Information on Linguist List [1]
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