Kambaata (language)

Kambaata
Spoken in	Ethiopia
speaker	606.241
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asian languages Cushitic languages East Kushite Highland East Kushite Kambaata
Language codes
ISO 639 -1	?
ISO 639 -2	?

Kambaata (also called Kambatta, Kambata, Kembata, Kemata, Kambara or Donga ) is a language spoken in Ethiopia by the Kambaata of the same name . It belongs to the Highland East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asian language family .

The Timbaro (Timbara, Timbaaro, Tambaro) is a dialect of the Kambaata.

There are a large number of verb affixes in the Kambaata; There is a great wealth of inflections in Kambaata both in nouns and verbs. Case, number and gender are expressed in nouns and adjectives (numerals, demonstrative pronouns).

The sentence order is subject-object-verb .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kambaata. A language of Ethiopia. Ethnologue.com
2. ↑ Final report Hochlandkuschitisch, University of Cologne 2005  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF file; 104 kB)

literature

• Yvonne Treis: A Grammar of Kambaata. Part I: Phonology, Nominal Morphology and Non-verbal Predication. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Cologne 2008 ISBN 978-3-89645-484-3

Web links

• Yvonne Treis: Form and Function of Case Marking in Kambaata. African Studies online, 2006
• Highland East Kushite. Grammatical and lexical documentation of the Kambaata and the Alaba. Maps of the Kambaata language area. University of Cologne