Dima-Bottego language
The language of the Dima people, who lived to the east of the Omo River north of Lake Turkana, as described by Vittorio Bottego in an expedition to Ethiopia in 1897. It is known by only a few numerals, which do not obviously resemble another language.
| Dima | |
|---|---|
| Region | Lake Turkana |
| Era | attested 1897[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | dima1246[2] |
Data
The Dima numerals 1–10 are recorded.[1]
- 1 ekkā
- 2 ekkinā
- 3 dāsā
- 4 dəndāsā
- 5 osā
- 6 osəkər
- 7 fāṣā
- 8 orongo
- 9 kēriri
- 10 kēpēs
6 appears to be composed of 5+1.
Notes
- Carlo Conti Rossini, 1927. Sui Linguaggi Parlati a Nord dei Laghi Rodolfo e Stefania. In Boas, Dempwolff, Panconcelli-Calzia, Werner & Westermann (eds.), Festschrift Meinhof, 247–255. L. Friederichsen, Hamburg.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dima-Bottego". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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