Jiiddu language

Jiiddu (also known as Jiddu or Af-Jiiddu) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Jiiddu Tribe of the Digil, a Somali clan inhabiting southern Somalia. It is part of the family's Cushitic branch, and has an estimated 100,000 speakers mainly residing in the Lower Shabeelle, Bay and Middle Jubba regions and the sultan of Jiddo is called warsame Alio Ibrow [3]

Jiiddu
Native toSomalia
RegionSouthwestern (Qoryoley, Kurtunwarey and Sablaale)
Native speakers
100,000 (2019)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jii
Glottologjiid1238[2]

Typically classified as part of the Digil group of languages, Jiiddu has a different phonology and sentence structure from Somali. However, it more closely resembles Somali than Baiso. It also possibly shares commonalities with the Hadiyya, Gedeo, Alaba-Kabeena, Konso and Kambaata languages spoken in southern Ethiopia.[4]

Notes

  1. Jiiddu at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jiiddu". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. There is Jiddu Dictionary wrote by Prof. Saalim Aliyow ibrow, Jiddu Dictionary is one of the most famous dictionaries in Africa especially Somalia. DiEthnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. Ethnologue - Jiiddu language
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