Gamo

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Gamo is an Omotic language spoken primarily by the Gamo people in southwestern Ethiopia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Gamo canonical 4

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Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Omotic language
language
natural language
belongsToMacroArea Africa
country Ethiopia
endangermentStatus developing language
ethnicGroupAssociated Gamo people NERFINISHED
glottologCode gamo1243
glottologName Gamo self-link
hasAlternativeName Gamo language
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro language
hasBasicWordOrder subject–object–verb
hasCaseMarking postpositional case marking
hasContactLanguage Amharic
Wolaytta
hasDialects Gamo dialects
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
tonal language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNominalFeature rich case system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
ejective consonants
hasSociolinguisticFeature bilingualism with Amharic common among speakers
hasStatus regional language in Ethiopia
hasVerbalFeature complex verbal morphology
ISO639-3Code gmv
languageBranch Omotic languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
linguisticArea Ethiopian language area
neighboringLanguages Dawro
Gofa
Kurux
surface form: Kullo

Wolaytta
primaryScriptUsage used in local education to a limited extent
region Southwestern Ethiopia
spokenBy Gamo people NERFINISHED
spokenIn rural areas of Gamo Zone
towns of southwestern Ethiopia
subclassOf North Omotic language
usedFor daily communication
local trade
traditional oral literature
usedIn Gamo Zone
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
writingSystem Ethiopic script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gamo glottologName Gamo self-link