Qimant

E392873

Qimant is an endangered Cushitic language of northwestern Ethiopia, traditionally spoken by the Qemant people.

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Qimant canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic language
endangered language
language
alsoKnownAs Kemant
Qemant
closelyRelatedTo Awngi
Kunfal
documentedBy David L. Appleyard
Wolf Leslau
endangermentCause intermarriage
lack of intergenerational transmission
language shift to Amharic
urbanization
ethnicGroup Qemant people
hasCase ablative
accusative
dative
genitive
instrumental
locative
nominative
hasGenderCategory feminine
masculine
hasLinguisticFeature gender distinction
number distinction
postpositions
rich case system
verbal aspect marking
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
suffixing
hasNumberCategory plural
singular
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
ejective consonants
emphatic consonants
geminate consonants
languageBranch Agaw languages
languageCodeISO639-3 ahg
languageFamily Cushitic
surface form: Cushitic languages
primaryWordOrder SOV
shiftedToDominantLanguage Amharic
spokenInCountry Ethiopia
spokenInRegion northwestern Ethiopia
status moribund
severely endangered
subfamily Central Cushitic languages
usedAs liturgical language
ritual language
writingSystem Geʽez script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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