Kistane language
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Name (Latin)
Kistane language
Other forms of name
Aymallal language
Aymellel language
North Gurage language
Sodo Gurage language
Soddo language
See Also From tracing topical name
Gurage languages
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Ethiopia
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q13273
Library of congress:
sh2014001513
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Leslau, W. Ethiopians speak, 1965-68:vol. 3, t.p. (Soddo) p. v (uses Soddo for language, not Aymellel or Aymallal which was used previously; speakers of this language call themselves Kistane)
- Ethnologue, May 23, 2014(Kistane, a language of Ethiopia; ISO 639-3: gru; alt. names: North Gurage, Soddo, Soddo Gurage; classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, Ethiopian, South, Outer, n-Group; Dialects: Dobi (Dobbi, Goggot, Gogot), Soddo (Aymallal, Aymellel, Kestane, Kistane))
- Linguasphere, 1999(12-ACE-ac; kistane; kestane; Kistane; Ethiopia (Shewa))
Wikipedia description:
Soddo (autonym kəstane "Christian"; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources, after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter million people in southeastern Ethiopia. It is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily. Its native speakers, the Soddo Gurage people (Kistane), live predominantly in the Soddo district of the Gurage Zone.
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