Konso language
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| Konso Konso, Conso, Gato, Af-Kareti, Karate, Kareti |
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Region: | South of Lake Ciamo in the bend of the Sagan River | |
| Total speakers: | 149,508 (1998 census), 138,696 monolinguals, 5,658 second-language speakers | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Cushitic East Konso-Gidole Konso |
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| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | gdl | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
The Konso language (also Komso or Conso) is an East Cushitic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia. Native speakers of Konso number about 200,000 (SIL 2005). Konso is closely related to Diraytata (Kidole), and serves as a "trade language"—or lingua franca—beyond the area of the Konso people.
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