Hamer

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Hamer is an Omotic language spoken primarily by the Hamer people of southwestern Ethiopia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Hamer canonical 2
Hamer-Banna 2
Hamer-Bana 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Omotic language
language
natural language
associatedWithReligion Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
surface form: Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity

Protestant Christianity
traditional beliefs
continent Africa
country Ethiopia
ethnicGroup Hamer people
glottologCode hame1242
glottologName Hamer self-linksurface differs
surface form: Hamer-Banna
hasAlternativeName Hamar
Hamer
surface form: Hamer-Bana

Hamer
surface form: Hamer-Banna

Hamer-Banna language
hasDialect Banna dialect
Hamer dialect
Kara dialect
hasDomain Hamer culture
hasFeature case marking on nouns
rich verbal morphology
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
tonal language
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology
hasPhylumStatus controversial within Afroasiatic classification
hasStatus regional language
isMinorityLanguageIn Ethiopia
ISO639-3Code amf
languageBranch Omotic languages
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
languageSubbranch South Omotic languages
neighboringLanguages Aari
Arbore
Banna
Karo
Tsamai
region Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
spokenBy Hamer people
spokenIn Ethiopia
Southwestern Ethiopia
subclassOf South Omotic
surface form: South Omotic language
usedFor cultural practices
everyday communication
oral tradition
usedIn Hamer woreda
Omo Valley region
surface form: Omo River region
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Hamer writtenForm Hamer
Hamer hasAlternativeName Hamer
this entity surface form: Hamer-Banna
Hamer hasAlternativeName Hamer
this entity surface form: Hamer-Bana
Hamer glottologName Hamer self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Hamer-Banna