Sebat Bet Gurage language
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Sebat Bet is a Gurage language, spoken in several dialects found in the western Gurage Zone
Gurage Zone
Gurage is a Zone in the Ethiopian Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region . This zone is named for the Gurage people, whose homeland lies in this zone. Gurage is bordered on the south by Hadiya on the west north and east by the Oromia Region, and on the southeast by Silte. Its highest...

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  • Chaha
    Chaha language
    Chaha is a Semitic language spoken in central Ethiopia, mainly within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region and by speakers of the language who have settled in Ethiopian cities, especially Addis Ababa...

     (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha
    Cheha
    Cheha is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Cheha...

     woreda
    Woreda
    Woreda is an administrative division of Ethiopia , equivalent to a district . Woredas are composed of a number of Kebele, or neighborhood associations, which are the smallest unit of local government in Ethiopia...

    , and is the best studied of these dialects;
  • Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene
    Ezhana Wolene
    Ezhana Wolene is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after two of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Ezha and the Wolene-Worriro...

     woreda,
  • Muher
    Muher language
    Muher is an Ethiopian Semitic language belonging to the Gurage group.- References :*Cohen, Marcel . Etudes d’éthiopien méridional. Paris: Guenther.*Hetzron, Robert . The Gunnan-Gurage languages. Napoli : Istituto Orientale di Napoli....

     is spoken in the mountains north of Chaha and Ezha,
  • Gura is spoken in Goro
    Goro, SNNPR (woreda)
    Goro is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Goro...

     woreda,
  • Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer
    Gumer
    Gumer is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Gumer...

     woreda
  • Inor
    Inor language
    Inor , sometimes called Ennemor, is a Semitic language spoken in central Ethiopia, mainly within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, and by speakers of the language who have settled in Ethiopian cities, especially Addis Ababa...

     (Enemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner
    Enemorina Eaner
    Enemorina Eaner is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named in part after one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Enemor, who are first mentioned in a list of groups paying tribute to Emperor Yeshaq I...

     woreda
  • Gyeto, Endegegn, and the extinct Mesmes language
    Mesmes language
    The Mesmes language is an extinct language, one of the West Gurage languages, a cluster of Semitic languages in Ethiopia. There are still many people who claim the Mesmes ethnic identity, but none who speak the language. The last speaker of the language was interviewed by a language survey team...

     are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor.

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.

External links

  • Ethnologue
    Ethnologue
    Ethnologue: Languages of the World is a web and print publication of SIL International , a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies lesser-known languages, to provide the speakers with Bibles in their native language and support their efforts in language development.The Ethnologue...

     information on Sebat Bet Gurage
  • World Atlas of Language Structures
    World Atlas of Language Structures
    The World Atlas of Language Structures is a database of structural properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials. It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD-ROM in 2005, and was released as the second edition on the Internet in April 2008...

    information on Chaha
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