Mursi language

Mursi (also Dama, Merdu, Meritu, Murzi, Murzu) is a Surmic language spoken by the Mursi people, in the central Omo region of southwest Ethiopia. It is similar to Suri, spoken in most of the immediately surrounding area.

Mursi
Native toEthiopia
RegionCentral Omo
EthnicityMursi
Native speakers
7,400 (2007 census)[1]
Nilo-Saharan?
Ethiopic
Language codes
ISO 639-3muz
Glottologmurs1242
ELPMursi[2]

Notes

Bibliography

  • Bender, M. Lionel and David Turton. 1976. "Mursi". The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp. 533–561.
  • Mütze, Bettina (2014). A Sketch of the Mursi Language (MA thesis). Gloucester: Redcliff College, University of Gloustershire.
  • D. Turton, M. Yigezu and O. Olibui. 2008. Mursi-English-Amharic Dictionary. Addis Ababa: Culture and Arts Society of Ethiopia.
  • Worku, Firew Girma (2021). A Grammar of Mursi: A Nilo-Saharan Language of Ethiopia (Thesis). Leiden: Brill.
  • Yigezu, Moges and David Turton. 2005. Latin based Mursi Orthography. ELRC Working Papers, Ethiopian Languages Research Center, Addis Ababa University, 1:2, pp. 242-57 (2005).


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