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| Sebat Bet Gurage | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | West Gurage Zone |
| Native speakers | (undated figure of 1,000,000)[1] |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic
|
| Writing system | Geʽez script |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sgw |
| Glottolog | seba1251 |
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia.
Overview[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ Sebat Bet Gurage at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
Further reading[edit]
- 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.
External links[edit]
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Chaha