Gamo-Gofa-Dawro | |
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Spoken in | Ethiopia |
Region | Omo Region |
Native speakers | 1,240,000, including 1,050,000 monolinguals (1998) |
Language family | |
Writing system | Ethiopic/Latin |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | variously: gmv – Gamo gof – Gofa dwr – Dawro |
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Dawro, Gamo Gofa and Wolayita Zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in Ethiopia. Dialects include Gamo, Gofa, Dawro. Subdialects of Dawro are Konta and Kucha.[1] In 1992, Alemayehu Abebe collected a word-list of 322 entries for all three related dialects.[2]