Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a
North Omotic
The North Omotic (Nomotic) or Ta-Ne Omotic languages, belong to the Omotic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family and are spoken in Ethiopia.
Dizoid is left out in later classifications, but included in earlier ones.
A relatively comprehensive com ...
language spoken in western
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
by the
Shinasha people Shinasha may refer to:
*Shinasha people of Ethiopia
*Shinasha language
Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a North Omotic language spoken in western Ethiopia by the Shinasha people. Its speakers live in scattered areas north of the Ab ...
. Its speakers live in scattered areas north of the
Abay River
Abay may refer to:
People
*Abay (name)
Places
* Abay District, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
* Abay District, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
**Abay (town), the province's administrative center
* Abay, Almaty, Kazakhstan
* Abay, Aktobe, a village ...
: in the
Dangur Dangur is one of the 20 Districts of Ethiopia, or ''woredas'', in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region of Ethiopia. It is named after the Dangur range of mountains, which extend southwest from the mountains along the west side of Lake Tana. The administrat ...
, Bullen,
Dibate and
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districts, which are parts of the
Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Benishangul-Gumuz ( am, ቤንሻንጉል ጉሙዝ, Benšangul Gumuz) is a regional state in northwestern Ethiopia to the border of Sudan. It was previously known as Region 6. The region's capital is Assosa. Following the adoption of the 1 ...
.
[Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005]
"Boro, a language of Ethiopia", ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World''
15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Notes
References
* Lamberti, Marcello (1993) ''Die Shinassha-Sprache – Materialien zum Boro''. Heidelberg. Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
Further reading
* Franz Rottland (1990), "A sketch of Shinasha morphology"
''Omotic Language Studies'' Richard Hayward (editor), pp. 185–209. London:
SOAS
SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury are ...
.
* Idar Bergfjord (2013)
''Issues in Borna Phonology'' MA thesis, University of Oslo
External links
*
World Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database of structural (phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials. It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD-ROM i ...
information o
ShinasshaWebsite maintained by the language community, with published literature, including an online dictionary
Languages of Ethiopia
North Omotic languages
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