Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an
Omotic
The Omotic languages are a group of languages spoken in southwestern Ethiopia, in the Omo River region. The Ge'ez script is used to write some of the Omotic languages, the Latin script for some others. They are fairly agglutinative and have com ...
language of the
Afroasiatic family spoken in the
Dawro
Dawro (or Dawuro) is a zone in the South West Region of Ethiopia. It is located at about 500km southwest of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia and 319 km of Hawassa, the capital of the SNNPR. Dawuro is bordered on the south by Gamo Gofa Zone, ...
,
Gamo Gofa and
Wolayita Zones of the
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region in
Ethiopia. Varieties are spoken by the
Gamo,
Gofa Gofa may refer to:
* Gofa people of Ethiopia
*Gofa language
*Gofa Zone Gofa Zone (Amharic language, Amharic "Greater Gofa Area") was one of the 17 Zones in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Southern N ...
,
Dawro
Dawro (or Dawuro) is a zone in the South West Region of Ethiopia. It is located at about 500km southwest of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia and 319 km of Hawassa, the capital of the SNNPR. Dawuro is bordered on the south by Gamo Gofa Zone, ...
; Blench (2006) and ''Ethnologue'' treat these as separate languages.
Zala presumably belongs here as well. Dialects of Dawro (Kullo-Konta) are Konta and Kucha. In 1992, Alemayehu Abebe collected a word-list of 322 entries for all three related dialects.
[* Alemayehu Abebe]
"Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report"
SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068
Notes
External links
*
World Atlas of Language Structures information o
Gamo
Languages of Ethiopia
North Omotic languages
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