Girirra language
Girirra is a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It has extensive borrowing from Somali.[2]
Girirra | |
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Af Girirra | |
Native to | Ethiopia |
Region | Elkerre |
Ethnicity | Girirra people |
Native speakers | <57,000 |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | giri1245 [1] |
Phonology
The following are the phonemes found in Girirra:[3]
Bilabial | Labio- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar (Palato- alveolar) |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
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Plosive | b | t | d | k | ɡ | ʔ | ||||||||
Ejective plosive | kʼ | |||||||||||||
Implosive | ɗ | |||||||||||||
Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||||||||||
Ejective affricate | t͡ʃ' | |||||||||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
Trill | r | |||||||||||||
Approximant | j | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | /i/, /iː/ | /u/, /uː/ | |
Mid | /e/, /eː/ | /o/, /oː/ | |
Open | /a/, /aː/ |
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References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Girirra". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- SILESR2002 061
- Mekonnen, Hundie Kumbi. 2015. The Grammar of Girirra (A Lowland East Cushitic Language of Ethiopia). (Doctoral dissertation, Addis Ababa University; xxvii+367pp.)
Further reading
- Mekonnen, Hundie Kumbi. 2015. The Grammar of Girirra (A Lowland East Cushitic Language of Ethiopia). (Doctoral dissertation, Addis Ababa University; xxvii+367pp.)
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