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Gumer Language
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia. Overview One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region: * Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties * Mesqan is spoken in Meskan * Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene * Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene *Geta is spoken in Geta * Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer *Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner :* Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor. Notes Further reading * Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 373–397. *Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of . , it has around 128 million inhabitants, making it the List of countries and dependencies by population, thirteenth-most populous country in the world, the List of African countries by population, second-most populous in Africa after Nigeria, and the most populous landlocked country on Earth. The national capital and largest city, Addis Ababa, lies several kilometres west of the East African Rift that splits the country into the African Plate, African and Somali Plate, Somali tectonic plates. Early modern human, Anatomically modern humans emerged from modern-day Ethiopia and set out for the Near East and elsewhere in the Middle Paleolithi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezha Language
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia. Overview One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region: * Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties * Mesqan is spoken in Meskan * Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene * Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene *Geta is spoken in Geta * Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer *Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner :* Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor. Notes Further reading * Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 373–397. *Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 in 2005, and was released as the second edition on the Internet in April 2008. It is maintained by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and by the Max Planck Digital Library. The editors are Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil and Bernard Comrie. The atlas provides information on the location, linguistic affiliation and basic typological features of a great number of the world's languages. It interacts with OpenStreetMap maps. The information of the atlas is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. It is part of the Cross-Linguistic Linked Data project hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. See also * Intercontinental Dictionary Series R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mesmes Language
The Mesmes language is an extinct West Gurage language, one of the Ethiopian Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia. There are still many people who claim the Mesmes ethnic identity, but none who speak the language. The last speaker of the language, named Abegaz, was interviewed by a language survey team when he was approximately 80 years old. He had not spoken the language for 30 years, having nobody to speak it with since his brother died. The Mesmes have shifted to speaking the Hadiyya language. However, they still maintain some cultural distinctives, including their own style of house architecture. The comparative method has shown that the language is most closely related to the Inor variety of Gurage. A study of the phonology of Mesmes has shown evidence of rhinoglottophilia.Ahland, Michael. "Nasal spreading, rhinoglottophilia and the genesis of a non-etymological nasal consonant in Mesmes." In ''Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society'', vol. 31, no. 1, pp. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endegegn Language
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia. Overview One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region: * Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties * Mesqan is spoken in Meskan * Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene * Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene *Geta is spoken in Geta * Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer *Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner :* Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor. Notes Further reading * Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 373–397. *Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enemorina Eaner
Enemorina Eaner ("Enemor and Eaner") is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named in part after one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Enemor, who are first mentioned in a list of groups paying tribute to Emperor Yeshaq I, and other sub-group, Eaner. Part of the Gurage Zone, Enemorina Eaner is bordered on the south by the Hadiya Zone, on the southwest by Yem special woreda, on the west by Oromia Region, on the north by Cheha, on the east by Geta, and on the southeast by Endegagn. The administrative center of Enemorina Eaner is Gunchire. Endegagn was separated from this woreda. Local landmarks include Ener Emanuel monastery, which was founded by a regional governor (balabat) named Aba Gada Agallo during the reign of Emperor Menelik II. It is located 59 kilometers from Welkite. Aba Geda agallo, who was a governor of significant part of Gurage during the reign of Emperor Menelik II, was one of the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inor Language
Inor (pronounced ), sometimes called Ennemor, is an Afroasiatic language spoken in central Ethiopia. One of the Gurage languages, it is mainly spoken within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, as well as by speakers of the language who have settled in Ethiopian cities, especially Addis Ababa. In addition to the morphological complexity that is common to all Semitic languages, Inor exhibits the very complex morphophonology characteristic of West Gurage languages. Endegegn, Enner, Gyeto, and the extinct dialect Mesmes are all sometimes considered dialects of Inor. Inor possesses nasal vowel A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ () or Amoy []. By contrast, oral vowels are p ...s, which are unusual for a Gurage language. Many of these may be the result of historical rhinoglott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gumer
Gumer (Amharic: ጉመር) is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Gumer. Part of the Gurage Zone, Gumer is bordered on the southeast by the Silt'e Zone, on the southwest by Geta, on the northwest by Cheha, and on the north by Ezha. Towns in Gumer include Arek'it and B'ole. Geta and Alicho Werero woredas were separated from Gumer. Bodies of water in this woreda include Lake Arek'it, after which the town was named."Tourisms" , Gurage Zone Government website (accessed 11 August 2009) Landmarks include Mugo Mountain, which is now part of silte zone azernet berbere woreda mugo kebele, which has two mosques built in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gumer Language
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia. Overview One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region: * Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties * Mesqan is spoken in Meskan * Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene * Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene *Geta is spoken in Geta * Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer *Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner :* Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor. Notes Further reading * Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 373–397. *Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta (woreda)
Geta is one of the Districts of Ethiopia, woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Geta is one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage. Part of the Gurage Zone, the Geta woreda is bordered on the south by the Siltʼe Zone, on the southwest by Endegagn, on the west by Enemorina Eaner, on the north by Cheha, and on the northeast by Gumer. Geta was separated from the Gumer woreda. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this woreda has a total population of 69,455, of whom 33,020 are men and 36,435 women. The majority of the inhabitants were reported as Islam in Ethiopia, Muslim, with 77.6% of the population reporting that belief, while 17.19% practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 4.26% were P'ent'ay, Protestants. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geta Language
Geta may refer to: Places *Geta (woreda), a woreda in Ethiopia's Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region *Geta, Åland, a municipality in Finland *Geta, Nepal, a town in Attariya Municipality, Kailali District, Seti Zone, Nepal *Getå, a minor locality in Norrköping Municipality, Sweden Other uses * ''Geta'' (comedy), a medieval poem * Geta (footwear), a type of Japanese footwear * Geta symbol (〓), a Japanese typographic symbol * Gta’ language, a Munda language of India *''Courtship Rite'' or ''Geta'', a 1982 science fiction novel by Donald Kingsbury *Gender Exploratory Therapy Association People with the name *Geta (emperor) (189–211), Roman emperor from 209 to 211 *Gaius Vitorius Hosidius Geta, Roman priest and grandson of Gnaeus Hosidius Geta *Gnaeus Hosidius Geta (c. AD 20 – after 95), Roman senator and general * Hosidius Geta (2nd–3rd century), Roman playwright * Lucius Lusius Geta (1st century), Roman governor of Egypt See also * Getas (Γέτας ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muher Language
Muher (''Muxar'') is an Ethiopian Semitic language belonging to the Gurage group. It is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene in Ethiopia. The language has two dialects, which are named after the first-person singular pronoun "I" they use: Ana uses ''əni''/''anä'', Adi uses ''adi''/''ädi'' (similar to the related language Soddo). The language is sometimes written in a modified Arabic (Ajam) or Amharic script. It has approximately 90,000 speakers. Phonology The phonemic status of the glottal stop is uncertain. In some cases, /kʼ/ or /kʷ/ may be reduced to �or �ʷ respectively, postvocalically. The basic syllable structure of Muher is C(C)V(C)(C) Grammar Like many Semitic languages, Muher has triconsonantal roots for verbs and nominals. Personal pronouns both substitute for subjects and function as possessive suffixes on nominals. Definiteness is marked by the definite suffix ''-we.'' Muher has a decimal number system. The teens are formed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |