Tsamai language

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Tsamai
Tsamako
Native to Ethiopia
Region Omo River region
Native speakers
18,000  (2007 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tsb

Tsamai (also known as Ts'amay, S'amai, Tamaha, Tsamako, Tsamakko, Bago S'amakk-Ulo, Kuile, Kule, Cule) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia.[2] Tsamai is a member of the Dullay dialect continuum.

Notes

  1. Ethiopia 2007 Census
  2. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Further reading

  • Graziano Savà. 2005. A Grammar of Ts'amakko. Cushitic Language Studies Volume 22. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.


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