Sidama (language)

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Sidama

Spoken in

Ethiopia
speaker 1,632,902 (1998)
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Recognized minority /
regional language in 		Flag of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region.svg YeDebub ( Ethiopia ) EthiopiaEthiopia 
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

sid

ISO 639-3

sid

The language Sidama (also called Sidamo or Sidaminya , own name Sidámo 'Afó ) belongs to the highland East Cushitic languages . It is spoken by around 1.6 million people from the Sidama people in southern Ethiopia . The vocabulary is influenced by Old Ethiopian , Amharic and Oromo .

The designation "Sidama" or "Sidamo" was used earlier for other East Cushitic languages as well as for omotic languages .

literature

  • Gebre-Tsadik, Abebe and others. 1985. The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji .
  • Gebre-Tsadik, Abebe. 1985. An overview of the morphological structure of Sidamo verbs.
  • Payne, Doris L. 1992. Towards a more adequate approach to 'focus' phenomena (Review of' Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies, by Klaus Wedekind).
  • Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses.

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