Sidama (language)
Sidama | ||
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Spoken in |
Ethiopia | |
speaker | 1,632,902 (1998) | |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
sid |
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ISO 639-3 |
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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.