Gumuz language
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| Gumuz | ||
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia, Sudan | |
| Region: | Benishangul-Gumuz Region | |
| Total speakers: | 120,424 in Ethiopia; 40,000 in Sudan | |
| Language family: | Nilo-Saharan Komuz Gumuz |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | guk | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Gumuz (also spelled "Gumaz") is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by the Gumuz people, who live along the border of Ethiopia and Sudan. Most Ethiopian speakers live in the Metekel Zone of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region, although a group of 1,000 live outside the town of Welkite. The Sudanese speakers live in the area east of Er Roseires, around Famaka and Fazoglo on the Blue Nile, extending north along the border.[1]
An early record of this language is a wordlist compiled by Juan Maria Schuver from the Mount Guba area, which he prepared in February 1883.[2]
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- Ahland, Colleen Anne. 2004. "Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility." M.A. thesis. University of Texas at Arlington.
- Unseth, Peter. 1985. "Gumuz: a dialect survey report." Journal of Ethiopian Studies 18: 91-114.
- Unseth, Peter. 1989. "Selected aspects of Gumuz phonology." In Taddese Beyene (ed.), Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, vol. 2, 617-32. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies.
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