Girirra language
Girirra | |
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Af Girirra | |
Native to | Ethiopia |
Region | Af-Dheer Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia |
Ethnicity | Girirra people, Somali People |
Native speakers | <57,000 |
Afro-Asiatic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gii |
Glottolog | giri1245 |
Girirra also called Gariire is a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It has extensive borrowing from Somali.[1]Although not mutually intelligible with Somali, it is estimated that around 70% of the Garirra language is made up of Somali loan words. There has not been many studies on the language itself and is often grouped into a small umbrella of the Macro-Somali language family including relatives like: Rendille, Boni, Bayso, and the two dialects of Somali, being Af-Maay, and Af-Maxaa (Standard Somali).[2]
Phonology[]
The following are the phonemes found in Girirra:[3]
Labial | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | t | k | ʔ | |||
voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||
glottalic | ɗ | kʼ | |||||
Affricate | voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||
glottalic | t͡ʃʼ | ||||||
Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | |||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | l | j |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | /i/, /iː/ | /u/, /uː/ | |
Mid | /e/, /eː/ | /o/, /oː/ | |
Open | /a/, /aː/ |
References[]
- ^ SILESR2002 061
- ^ Blench, Roger (2006). "The Afro-Asiatic Languages Classification and Reference List" (PDF).
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(help) - ^ Mekonnen, Hundie Kumbi. 2015. The Grammar of Girirra (A Lowland East Cushitic Language of Ethiopia). (Doctoral dissertation, Addis Ababa University; xxvii+367pp.)
Further reading[]
- Mekonnen, Hundie Kumbi. 2015. The Grammar of Girirra (A Lowland East Cushitic Language of Ethiopia). (Doctoral dissertation, Addis Ababa University; xxvii+367pp.)
Categories:
- Omo–Tana languages
- Languages of Ethiopia
- Afroasiatic language stubs