Surma

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Surma is a group of closely related languages spoken by indigenous communities in southwestern Ethiopia and neighboring regions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nilo-Saharan language
Surmic language
language group
hasEthnologueEntry yes
hasISOClassification Surmic branch of Nilo-Saharan NERFINISHED
hasSubLanguage Me’en language NERFINISHED
Mursi language
Suri language NERFINISHED
Tirma-Chai varieties
isEndangered some member languages are endangered
languageFamily Eastern Sudanic languages NERFINISHED
Nilo-Saharan languages
Surmic languages NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
tone language
neighboringLanguages Afroasiatic languages NERFINISHED
Nilotic languages NERFINISHED
Omotic languages
primaryCountry Ethiopia NERFINISHED
region Ethiopian–South Sudanese borderlands NERFINISHED
Omo Valley NERFINISHED
spokenBy Me’en people NERFINISHED
Mursi people NERFINISHED
Suri people NERFINISHED
Surma peoples NERFINISHED
spokenIn Ethiopia NERFINISHED
South Sudan NERFINISHED
Southwestern Ethiopia NERFINISHED
usedBy indigenous communities
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Surmic alternativeName Surma