Mursi language

Mursi (also Dama, Merdu, Meritu, Murzi, Murzu) is a Surmic language spoken by the Mursi people, in the central Omo region of southwest Ethiopia. It is similar to Suri, spoken in most of the immediately surrounding area.

Mursi
Native toEthiopia
RegionCentral Omo
EthnicityMursi
Native speakers
7,400 (2007 census)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Eastern Sudanic
    • Surmic
      • South
        • Southeast
          • Suri–Mursi
            • Mursi
Ethiopic
Language codes
ISO 639-3muz
Glottologmurs1242[2]

Notes

  1. Ethiopia 2007 Census
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mursi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Bibliography

  • Bender, M. Lionel and David Turton. 1976. "Mursi". The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp. 533–561.
  • D. Turton, M. Yigezu and O. Olibui. 2008. Mursi-English-Amharic Dictionary. Addis Ababa: Culture and Arts Society of Ethiopia.
  • Yigezu, Moges and David Turton. 2005. Latin based Mursi Orthography. ELRC Working Papers, Ethiopian Languages Research Center, Addis Ababa University, 1:2, pp. 242-57 (2005).
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