Gamo-Gofa-Dawro language

Gamo-Gofa-Dawro
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Omo Region
Ethnicity	Gamo people
Native speakers	1.09 million of Gamo, 392,000 of Gofa, 533,000 of Dawro (2007 census)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Omotic Ometo North Gamo-Gofa-Dawro; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Ethiopic, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; gmv – Gamo; gof – Gofa; dwr – Dawro
Glottolog	dawr1235

Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an Omotic language of the Afroasiatic family spoken in the Dawro, Gamo Gofa and Wolayita Zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region in Ethiopia. Varieties are spoken by the Gamo, Gofa, Dawro; Blench (2006) and Ethnologue treat these as separate languages. Zala presumably belongs here as well. Dialects of Dawro (Kullo-Konta) are Konta and Kucha.[2] In 1992, Alemayehu Abebe collected a word-list of 322 entries for all three related dialects.[3]

Notes

Gamo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Gofa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Dawro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- Alemayehu Abebe, "Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report" SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068

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