Sebat Bet Gurage language
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Sebat Bet Gurage | |
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Native to | Ethiopia |
Region | West Gurage Zone |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 1,000,000)[1] |
Ethiopic | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | sgw |
Glottolog | seba1251 [2] |
Overview
One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Zone:
- Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties
- Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene
- Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhaha Wolene
- Gura is spoken in Goro woreda
- Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer
- Inor (Enemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner
- Gyeto, Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor.
Notes
- Sebat Bet Gurage at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sebat Bet Gurage". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Further reading
- Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 373–397.
- Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 403–427.
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