Ganza language
Ganza (also Ganzo, Koma) (Arabic: غانزا) is an Omotic language spoken in the Al Kurumik district of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.
| Ganza | |
|---|---|
| غانزا | |
| Native to | Sudan, Ethiopia |
| Region | Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gza |
| Glottolog | ganz1246 |
| ELP | Ganza[2] |
It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.[3]
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | ejective | plain | ejective | plain | ejective | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ʔ̃ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | pʼ | t | tʼ | k | kʼ | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | sʼ | ʃ | h | ||||
| voiced | z | ||||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||||
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.[4]:106
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | a | |
Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowel lengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double vowels.[4]:109
References
- Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia
Notes
- Ganza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Ganza.
- "Ganza". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
- Smolders, Joshua (2016). "A Phonology of Ganza" (pdf). Linguistic Discovery. 14 (1): 86–144. doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
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