Sidamo

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Sidamo is a Cushitic language spoken primarily in southern Ethiopia by the Sidama people.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Cushitic language
language
basicWordOrder SOV
closelyRelatedTo Alaba language
Hadiyya language
Kambaata language
Qewena language
country Ethiopia
endangermentStatus developing language
ethnicGroupAssociated Sidama people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Sidama
Sidamu Afoo
hasCaseSystem nominative-accusative alignment
hasDialects regional varieties within Sidama Zone
hasGenderDistinction grammatical gender
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Amharic
Oromo
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
case marking on nouns
rich verbal inflection
hasNumberDistinction singular and plural
hasNumeralSystem decimal numeral system
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
tone or pitch accent
hasPrepositionsOrPostpositions postpositions
hasTenseAspectSystem multiple past and non-past distinctions
isMediumOf Sidama cultural expression
oral literature and folklore of Sidama people
ISO639-3Code sid
languageBranch Cushitic
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
surface form: Afroasiatic
languageSubbranch Cushitic
surface form: Highland East Cushitic
region southern Ethiopia
spokenBy Sidama people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Ethiopia
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
subclassOf Afroasiatic language
Highland East Cushitic language
usedBy several million speakers
usedIn education at local level in Sidama region
local media in Sidama region
writingSystem Geʽez script
surface form: Ethiopic script

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