Gimira

E386660

Gimira is an Omotic language spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, primarily by the Gimira (Bench) people.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Gimira canonical 2
Gimira-Bench 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Omotic language
language
country Ethiopia
ethnicGroupAssociated Bench people
Gimira people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Bench
Bench language
Gimira (Bench)
hasAlternativeSpelling Benc
Benchʼ
hasDomain home
local markets
traditional ceremonies
hasEthnologueEntry https://www.ethnologue.com/language/bcq
hasGlottocode benc1236
hasGlottologEntry https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/benc1236
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
tone language
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasNeighbouringLanguage Amharic
Dizi
Me'en
Sheko
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive tone
rich consonant inventory
vowel length distinctions
hasResearchField Omotic linguistics
hasSociolinguisticSituation bilingualism with Amharic
influencedBy Amharic
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
isMinorityLanguageIn Ethiopia
ISO639-3Code bcq
languageBranch Omotic
languageFamily Afroasiatic
locatedNear Bench Maji Zone
region Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
spokenBy Bench people
Gimira people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Ethiopia
Southwestern Ethiopia
subclassOf North Omotic language
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

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

Bench language hasAlternativeName Gimira
this entity surface form: Gimira-Bench