Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an
Omotic language of the
Afroasiatic family
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic), also known as Hamito-Semitic, or Semito-Hamitic, and sometimes also as Afrasian, Erythraean or Lisramic, are a language family of about 300 languages that are spoken predominantly in the geographic su ...
spoken in the
Dawro,
Gamo Gofa
Gamo may refer to:
* Gamo (airgun manufacturer), a Spanish airgun manufacturer
* Gamō clan (蒲生氏, Gamō-shi), a Japanese clan which claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan
* Gamo people, an Ethiopian ethnic group
* Gamō, Shiga (蒲生町, G ...
and
Wolayita Zone
Wolayita or Wolaita is an administrative zone in Ethiopia. It is named for the Welayta people, whose homeland is in the zone. Wolayita is bordered on the south by Gamo Gofa, on the west by the Omo River which separates it from Dawro, on the n ...
s of the
in
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 ...
. Varieties are spoken by the
Gamo,
Gofa,
Dawro; Blench (2006) and ''Ethnologue'' treat these as separate languages.
Zala presumably belongs here as well. Dialects of Dawro (Kullo-Konta) are Konta and Kucha. In 1992, Alemayehu Abebe collected a word-list of 322 entries for all three related dialects.
[* Alemayehu Abebe]
"Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report"
SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068
Notes
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-RO ...
information o
Gamo
Languages of Ethiopia
North Omotic languages
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