Kambaata (language)
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speaker | 606.241 | |
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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
- ↑ Kambaata. A language of Ethiopia. Ethnologue.com
- ↑ 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