Kachama-Ganjule language

Kachama-Ganjule
Kachama-Ganjule
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	on islands in Lake Chamo and Lake Abaya
Native speakers	2,800 (2007 census for Qechemigna)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Omotic Ometo East Kachama-Ganjule; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Kachama; Ganjule; ?Gidicho;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kcx
Glottolog	kach1284
ELP	Gats'amé; Ganjulé;

Kachama-Ganjule is an Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia on islands in Lake Chamo and Lake Abaya. Kachama is spoken on in Lake Abaya, whereas Ganjule was originally spoken on a small island in Lake Chamo. Now the Ganjule speakers have relocated to the west shore of the Lake. There still are about 1,000 monolinguals in this language.^[2]

Blench (2006) lists Gidicho, Kachama, and Ganjule as separate languages. Ethnologue gives Gatame/Get'eme/Gats'ame as a synonym; however, Blench treats that as a separate language as well, a synonym with Haruro/Harro. While he moves the others to the northern branch of the Ometo languages, he leaves Gatame/Haruro in the eastern branch.^[3] No evidence is presented for treating these as separate languages.

Notes[]

^ Ethiopia 2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List

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[1] Ethiopia 2007 Census Archived 2010-11-14 at the Wayback Machine

[2] Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[3] Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List

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