Gamo-Gofa-Dawro language

Gamo-Gofa-Dawro
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]

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. ^ * Alemayehu Abebe, "Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report" SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068

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