Bosha is an extinct

Omotic language The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region. The Ge'ez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have com ...

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 ...

. '' Ethnologue'' lists it as a dialect of the Northern Omotic

Kafa language Kafa or Kefa (''Kafi noono'') is a North Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia at the Keffa Zone. It is part of the Ethiopian Language Area, with SOV word order, ejective consonants, etc. A collection of proverbs in the language has been publish ...

, but notes that it may be a distinct language. Other sources list it as unclassified.Blench, 2006
The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
/ref> The Bosha state, the

Kingdom of Garo The Kingdom of Garo, also known as Bosha after its ruling dynasty, was an Oromo-Sidama kingdom in the Horn of Africa. Established by the Sidama people, it was situated on the periphery of the Gibe region of Ethiopia. Location The kingdom of Ga ...

, was a culturally Gonga enclave within the southern Oromo area.

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Languages of Ethiopia North Omotic languages {{AfroAsiatic-lang-stub