Dawro

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

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Dawro canonical 4

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Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Omotic language
language
natural language
country Ethiopia
ethnicGroup Dawro people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Dawuro
Ometo
surface form: Ometo-Dawro
hasAncestor Omotic languages
surface form: Proto-Omotic
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialects local varieties in Dawro Zone
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars and wordlists
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isMutuallyIntelligibleWith nearby Ometo varieties (to a limited degree)
isRelatedTo Gamo Zone
surface form: Gamo

Gofa
Wolaytta
other Ometo languages
languageCodeISO639-3 dwr
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic
region Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
spokenBy Dawro people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Ethiopia
spokenInRegion southwestern Ethiopia
subbranch North Omotic
Ometo
subfamily Omotic
usedIn local administration in Dawro Zone
oral literature
primary education (local level)
traditional songs and stories
writingSystem Ethiopic script

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