Kistane language

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Kistane language is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken by the Kistane (Soddo) people in central Ethiopia.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ethiopian Semitic language
Semitic language
language
alternativeName Kistane
Kistane (Soddo)
Soddo language
belongsTo Gurage languages
surface form: Gurage language cluster
branch South Ethiopic
surface form: Outer South Ethiopic

South Ethiopic
closelyRelatedTo Gurage languages
Silt'e language
surface form: Siltʼe language
continent Africa
country Ethiopia
surface form: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
ethnicGroup Kistane people NERFINISHED
Gurage people
surface form: Soddo people
family Afroasiatic languages
hasLinguisticFeature emphatic consonants
gender distinction in nouns
rich verb morphology
root-and-pattern morphology
subject–object–verb basic word order
hasMorphosyntacticAlignment nominative–accusative
hasPhonologicalFeature consonant gemination
vowel length distinctions
isMinorityLanguageIn Ethiopia
ISO639-3 gru
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Semitic
primaryStatus vernacular language
region Gurage
surface form: Gurage Zone

Southern Ethiopia
scriptDirection left-to-right
spokenIn Ethiopia
central Ethiopia
subfamily Semitic languages
subgroup Gurage languages
South Ethiopic
surface form: South Ethiopic languages
typologicalClass fusional language
usedBy Kistane community
usedIn folklore of Kistane people
local administration in Kistane areas
oral literature of Kistane people
traditional songs of Kistane people
writingSystem Geʽez script
surface form: Ethiopic script

Geʽez script

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Gurage languages hasLanguage Kistane language