Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a
North Omotic language spoken in western
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the Er ...
by the
Shinasha people. Its speakers live in scattered areas north of the
Abay River
Abay may refer to:
People
* Abay (name)
Places
*Abay District, East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
*Abay District, Karagandy Province, Kazakhstan
** Abay (town), the province's administrative center
*Abay, Almaty, Kazakhstan
*Abay, Aktobe, a village in ...
: in the
Dangur, Bullen,
Dibate
Dibate is a town in western Ethiopia, named after a Dibate people, local tribe. Located in the Metekel Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz, Dibate has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1438 meters above sea level.
Based on figures from t ...
and
Wenbera districts, which are parts of the
Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Benishangul-Gumuz ( am, ቤንሻንጉል ጉሙዝ, Benšangul Gumuz) is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in northwestern Ethiopia to the border of Sudan. It was previously known as Region 6. The region's capital is Assosa. Following the ...
.
[Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005]
"Boro, a language of Ethiopia", ''Ethnologue: Languages of the World''
15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Notes
References
* Lamberti, Marcello (1993) ''Die Shinassha-Sprache – Materialien zum Boro''. Heidelberg. Universitätsverlag C. Winter.
Further reading
* Franz Rottland (1990), "A sketch of Shinasha morphology"
''Omotic Language Studies'' Richard Hayward (editor), pp. 185–209. London:
SOAS
SOAS University of London (; the School of Oriental and African Studies) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the federal University of London. Founded in 1916, SOAS is located in the Bloomsbury are ...
.
* Idar Bergfjord (2013)
''Issues in Borna Phonology'' MA thesis, University of Oslo
External links
*
World Atlas of Language Structures
The World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) is a database of structural ( phonological, grammatical, lexical) properties of languages gathered from descriptive materials. It was first published by Oxford University Press as a book with CD-R ...
information o
ShinasshaWebsite maintained by the language community, with published literature, including an online dictionary
Languages of Ethiopia
North Omotic languages
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