Suri language

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Suri
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Bench Maji Zone
Ethnicity	Suri, Tirma
Native speakers	27,000 (2007 census)^[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Kir–Abbaian Surmic South Southeast Suri–Mursi Suri
Dialects	Tirma Chai
Writing system	Ethiopic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`suq`

Suri (also Churi, Dhuri, Shuri, Shuro, Surma, Tirma) is a Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic language, of the Surmic grouping. It is spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia, to the South Sudan border, and across the border in South Sudan by the Suri. The language has over 80% lexical similarity to Mursi.^[2]

Bibliography

Bryant, Mike and Bargola Olekibo, compilers. 1997. Surichen ko aranjacan ko golacan (Suri - English - Amharic dictionary). 2nd ed. S.l.: Surma Translation Project. 65 p.
Bryant, Michael G. 1999. Aspects of Tirmaga Grammar. MA thesis. University of Texas, Arlington.
Last, Marco and Deborah Lucassen. 1998. "A Grammatical Sketch on Chai, a Southeastern Surmic Language". in: Dimmendaal, Gerrit and Marco Last (eds.) Surmic Languages and Cultures. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln. pp. 375–436.
Unseth, Peter. 1997. "Disentangling the Two Languages Called 'Suri'". Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages 7: 49-69.

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