Inor (language)

In or
Spoken in	Ethiopia
speaker	280,000
Linguistic ; classification	Afro-Asian languages Semitic languages Western Semitic languages Southwest Semitic Languages Ethiosemitic languages South Ethiosemitic Languages In or ;
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	-
ISO 639 -2	sem (other Semitic languages)
ISO 639-3	ior

Inor ( [ino: r] ), sometimes called Ennemor , is a Semitic language spoken in central Ethiopia , mainly in the Gurage Zone of the region of southern nations, nationalities, and peoples, as well as by speakers of this language who speak Ethiopian Cities have moved, particularly in Addis Ababa .

In addition to the morphological complexity of all Semitic languages, Inor shows the very complex morphophonology characteristic of West Gurage languages .

Endegegn, Enner, Gyeto and the extinct dialect Mesmes are sometimes mistaken for dialects of the Inor.

Web links

Berhanu Chamora, Robert Hetzron: Inor . Lincom Europa, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89586-977-5 .
Robert Hetzron: The Gunnän-Gurage Languages . Istituto Orientale di Napoli, Naples 1977.
Wolf Leslau: Ethiopians Speak. Studies in Cultural Background. Part V: Chaha - Ennemor (Ethiopian Research; 16). Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03965-1 .
Wolf Leslau: Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic) . Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1979, ISBN 3-447-02041-5 .