Alaba-Kʼabeena language

Alaba-Kʼabeena
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Rift Valley southwest of Lake Shala
Native speakers	280,000 (2007 census)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Highland East Kambaata Alaba-Kʼabeena; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	alw
Glottolog	alab1254[2]

Alaba-Kʼabeena (Alaaba, Alaba, Allaaba, Halaba), also known as Wanbasana, is a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia by the Alaba and Kebena peoples in the Great Rift Valley southwest of Lake Shala, specifically in Alaba special district, the Kebena district of Gurage Zone, and the Goro district of Oromia Region. The literacy rate of native speakers in their language is below 1%, while their literacy rate in second languages is 8.6%; Alaba-Kʼabeena is taught in primary schools. It has an 81% lexical similarity with Kambaata.[1] However, Fleming (1976) classifies Kʼabeena (also transliterated "Qebena" or "Kebena") as a dialect of Kambaata, and Blench (2006) classifies both as dialects of Kambaata. The 2007 census in Ethiopia lists Alaba and Qebena as separate languages.[3]

A collection of over 400 proverbs in this language has been published with English translations.[4]

Notes

Alaba-Kʼabeena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Alaba-K'abeena". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2009. máakut(i) t'awá shuultáa - Proverbs Finish the Problems. Sayings of the Alaaba (Ethiopia). 114 pp. (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages vol.28). Rüdiger Köppe.

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References

Joachim Crass. 2005. "Das Kʼabeena, Deskriptive Grammatik einer hochlandostkuschitischen Sprache", Cushitic Language Studies, 23. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2007. "A Grammar of Alaaba, A Highland East Cushitic Language of Ethiopia", Cushitic Language Studies, 25. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

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[e18-1] Alaba-Kʼabeena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Alaba-K'abeena". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] 2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Gertrud Schneider-Blum. 2009. máakut(i) t'awá shuultáa - Proverbs Finish the Problems. Sayings of the Alaaba (Ethiopia). 114 pp. (Verbal Art and Documentary Literature in African Languages vol.28). Rüdiger Köppe.