Chaha language
E397412
Chaha is an Afroasiatic Semitic language of the Gurage group spoken primarily in southwestern Ethiopia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chaha language canonical | 6 |
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Afroasiatic language
ⓘ
Semitic language ⓘ natural language ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Ethiosemitic languages ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Ezha language
ⓘ
Gumer language ⓘ Gurage languages ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Ethiopia ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Gurage people ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Gurage languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Chaha Gurage language
Gurage ⓘ
surface form:
Chaha-Gurage
|
| hasFeature |
complex verb morphology
ⓘ
ejective consonants ⓘ emphatic consonants ⓘ gender distinction in pronouns ⓘ nonconcatenative morphology ⓘ pharyngeal consonants ⓘ prefix and suffix conjugation ⓘ root-and-pattern morphology ⓘ subject–object–verb basic word order ⓘ vowel length contrast ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
aspect
ⓘ
grammatical gender ⓘ mood ⓘ number ⓘ person ⓘ |
| hasMorphology |
derivational verb patterns
ⓘ
templatic morphology ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalSystem |
consonant-rich inventory
ⓘ
contrastive gemination ⓘ |
| hasWordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
| ISO639-3 | sgw ⓘ |
| isPartOf | West Gurage languages ⓘ |
| isStudiedIn |
Afroasiatic linguistics
ⓘ
Semitic linguistics ⓘ |
| languageBranch | Semitic ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Afroasiatic languages
ⓘ
surface form:
Afroasiatic
|
| linguisticTypology |
fusional language
ⓘ
verb-final language ⓘ |
| region | southwestern Ethiopia ⓘ |
| script | Geʽez script ⓘ |
| spokenIn | Ethiopia ⓘ |
| subfamilyOf |
Ethiopian Semitic languages
ⓘ
Gurage languages ⓘ |
| usedBy | Chaha-speaking Gurage communities ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Geʽez script
ⓘ
surface form:
Ethiopic script
|
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.