| Sidamo | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Region: | south central region | |
| Total speakers: | 1,876,329 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Cushitic East Highland Sidamo | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | sid | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Horn of Africa. Highland East Cushitic is a branch in south-central Ethiopia of the Afro-Asiatic language family. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Sidamo is an Afro-Asiatic language, belonging to the Cushitic branch, part of the Highland East Cushitic group. The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Horn of Africa. Highland East Cushitic is a branch in south-central Ethiopia of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is spoken in parts of southern Ethiopia. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page [1]
The term Sidamo has also been used by some authors to refer to larger groupings of East Cushitic and even Omotic languages. The Omotic languages are spoken in southwestern Ethiopia. They are often regarded as belonging to the Afro-Asiatic languages.
Sidamo vocabulary has been influenced by Ge'ez and Amharic, and has in turn influenced Oromo vocabulary. Ge'ez (ግዕዝ, ɡɨʕɨz also transliterated Gi'iz, and referred to as Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic Language Amharic (አማርኛ amarəñña) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. Oromo, also known as Afaan borana Oromoo, Oromiffa(a ( Ethiopic: ኦሮሚኛ and sometimes in other languages by variant spellings of these names
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Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
Grammars
- Abebe Gebre-Tsadik (1982) "Derived nominals in Sidamo," B. A. thesis, Addis Ababa University. Addis Ababa.
- Abebe Gebre-Tsadik. 1985. "An overview of the morphological structure of Sidamo verbs," The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 2. Cologne: Institut für Afrikanistik. Pages 64-81.
- Anbessa Teferra (1984) "Sidamo verb morphology," B. A. thesis, Addis Ababa University. Addis Ababa.
- Anbessa Teferra. 2000. "A grammar of Sidaama," Doctoral dissertation. Jerusalem, Israel: The Hebrew University.
- Cerulli, Enrico (1938) La Lingua e la Storia del Sidamo (Studi Etiopici II). Rome: Istituto per l’Oriente.
- Cohen, Marcel (1927) "Du verbe sidama (dans le groupe couchitique)," Bulletin de la Société de la Linguistique de Paris 83: 169-200. Marcel Samuel Raphaël Cohen ( February 6, 1884 – November 5, 1974) was a French linguist
- Gasparini, Armido (1978) Grammatica Practica della Lingua Sidamo. Awasa (Mimeographed: 127 pp. ).
- Kawachi, Kazuhiro (2007) "A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia," Doctoral dissertation. State University of New York at Buffalo.
- Moreno, Martino Mario (1940) Manuale di Sidamo. Milan: Mondadori. (This is apparently available at least in parts on the Rosetta Project site. )
Dictionaries
- Gasparini, Armido (1983) Sidamo-English dictionary. Bologna, Italy: E. M. I.
- Hudson, Grover (1989) Highland East Cushitic Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien 7). Hamburg: Buske.
- Sileshi Worqineh and Yohannis Latamo (1995) Sidaamu-Amaaru-Ingilizete Afii Qaalla Taashsho [Sidaama-Amharic-English Dictionary]. Awasa: Sidaamu Zoone Wogattenna Isporte Biddishsha [Sidaama Zone Sports and Culture Department].
Bible translations
- British and Foreign Bible Society (1933) St. Mark’s Gospel in Sidamo. London.
- Ethiopian Bible Society (1984) HaÌro GondoÌro [New Testament of Sidamo]. Addis Ababa.
External links
- Bibliography of Highland East Cushitic by Grover Hudson at the Michigan State University website.
- PanAfrican L10n page on Sidamo
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