Wolaytta (language)
| Wolaytta (also: Welamo) | ||
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Spoken in |
Ethiopia | |
| speaker | approx. 1.2 million | |
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| Official language in | Welaytta Zone ( Region of Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples ) | |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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Wolaytta (also: Welamo ) is an omotic language that belongs to the northern branch of this language group and is spoken by the Wolaytta people.
It is spoken by around 1.2 million people in Ethiopia (as of 1998) and is therefore one of the two most widely spoken languages within the omotic group, alongside the (also north-motic) dialect continuum Gamo-Gofa-Dawro .
Welamo was the official language of the Wolaytta Kingdom .
Linguistic characteristics
The Wolaytta has the basic word sequence subject-object-verb (SOV).
literature
- Marcello Lamberti et al. Roberto Sottile: The Wolaytta language . Köppe, Cologne 1997.
- Walter Ohman et al. Hailu Fulass: Welamo . In: M. Lionel Bender et al .: Language in Ethiopia . Oxford University Press, 1976, pp. 155-164.
- Motomichi Wakasa: A Descriptive Study of the Modern Wolaytta Language (PDF file; 4.9 MB). Dissertation, Tokyo 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ethnologue, Languages of the World: Gamo-Gofa-Dawro ( Memento from December 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )