Ganza language

Ganza
Ganza
غانزا
Native to	Sudan, Ethiopia
Region	Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Native speakers	3,000 (2007)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic Mao Ganza; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gza
Glottolog	ganz1246
ELP	Ganza

Ganza (also Ganzo, Koma) (Arabic: غانزا) is an Omotic language spoken in the of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.

It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.^[2]

Phonology[]

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ	ʔ̃
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ		kʼ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative	voiceless		s	ʃ		h
	ejective		sʼ
	voiced		z
Approximant			l	j	w
Trill			r

Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.^[3]^: 106

**Vowels**^[3]^: 107
	Front	Back
Close	i	u
Mid	e	o
Open	a

Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowel lengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double vowels.^[3]^: 109

References[]

Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia

Notes[]

^ Ganza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "Ganza". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
^ ^a ^b ^c Smolders, Joshua (2016). "A Phonology of Ganza" (pdf). Linguistic Discovery. 14 (1): 86–144. doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470. Retrieved 2017-01-16.

External links[]

Link to ELAR documentation of Ganza and Ganza verb mophology

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[e18-1] Ganza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "Ganza". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-23.

[Smolders-2016-3] Smolders, Joshua (2016). "A Phonology of Ganza" (pdf). Linguistic Discovery. 14 (1): 86–144. doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470. Retrieved 2017-01-16.

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