Languages

• Transversal
  • Amharic–Argobba
    • Amharic
      Amharic language
      Amharic is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia. It is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. Thus, it has official status and is used nationwide. Amharic is also the official or working...
      
       – national language of Ethiopia
    • Argobba
      Argobba language
      Argobba is an Ethiopian Semitic spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa by the Argobba people. It belongs to the South Ethiopian Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages...
      
      
  • Harari – East Gurage
    • Harari
    • East Gurage
      • Selti (Silt'e; dialects Ulbare, Wolane, Inneqor)
      • Zway (Zay)
• Outer
  • n-group:
    • Gafat
      Gafat language
      The Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation of the Song of Songs written in the 17th or 18th Century held at the Bodleian Library...
      
       – extinct
    • Soddo
      Soddo language
      Soddo is a Gurage language spoken by about 300,000 people in southeastern Ethiopia...
      
       (Kistane)
    • Goggot
  • tt-group:
    • Mesmes
      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...
      
       – extinct (sometimes considered Inor)
    • 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....
      
      
    • West Gurage
      • Masqan (Mesqan)
      • Sebat Bet
        • Sebat Bet Gurage
          Sebat Bet Gurage language
          Sebat Bet is a Gurage language, spoken in several dialects found in the western Gurage Zone:*Chaha is spoken in Cheha woreda, and is the best studied of these dialects;*Ezha is spoken in Ezhana Wolene woreda,...
          
           (dialects 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...
          
          , Ezha, Gumer, Gura)
        • 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...
          
          (dialects Ennemor [Inor proper], Endegegn, Gyeto)