Ale (also known as Gawwada, Gauwada, Gawata, Kawwad'a, Kawwada) is an
Afro-Asiatic language spoken in southern
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 ...
. It is a
Dullay language. Varieties include Dihina, Gergere, Gollango (= Gaba?), Gorose, Harso; Blench (2006) considers these to be distinct languages.
[Blench, 2006]
The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List
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References
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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-RO ...
information o
Dullay (Gollango)Gawwada language topical vocabulary list(from th
World Loanword Database
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Languages of Ethiopia
East Cushitic languages
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