Sebat Bet Gurage language
Gurage language spoken in Ethiopia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia.
| Sebat Bet Gurage | |
|---|---|
| ሰባት ቤት ጉራጌ (Səbat Bet Gurage) | |
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | West Gurage Zone |
| Ethnicity | 3.2 million Gurage (2022)[1] |
Native speakers | 2.5 million (2022)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Geʽez script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sgw |
| Glottolog | seba1251 |
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One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects.[2] The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region:
- Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties
- Mesqan is spoken in Meskan
- Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene
- Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene
- Geta is spoken in Geta
- Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer
- Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner
- Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor.
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