Muher (''Muxar'') is an Ethiopian Semitic language belonging to the Gurage group. It is spoken in the mountains north of

Cheha Cheha is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. This woreda is named after one of the sub-groups of the Sebat Bet Gurage, the Cheha. Part of the Gurage Zone, Cheha is bordered on the south ...

and Ezhana Wolene in

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 ...

. The language has two dialects, which are named after the first-person singular pronoun "I" they use: Ana uses ''əni''/''anä'', Adi uses ''adi''/''ädi'' (similar to the related language Soddo).

References

* Cohen, Marcel (1936). ''Etudes d’éthiopien méridional''. Paris: Geuthner. * Hetzron, Robert (1977). ''The Gunnan-Gurage languages''. Napoli : Istituto Orientale di Napoli. * Leslau, Wolf (1979). ''Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic)''. 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. () *Leslau, Wolf (1981). ''Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background, Part IV : Muher''. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner. () *Meyer, Ronny (2005). "The morpheme ''yä-'' in Muher", in: ''Lissan - Journal of African Languages and Linguistics'' 19/1, pp. 40–63. * Polotsky, Hans Jakob (1939). "L labialisé en gouragué mouher", in: GLECS 3, pp. 66–68 ''Collected Papers by H. J. Polotsky'' (Jerusalem: Magnes press 1971), pp. 516–518 *Rose, Sharon (1996). "Allomorphy and Morphological Categories in Muher", in: G. Hudson (ed.), ''Essays in Gurage Language and Culture'' (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 205–227. *Rose, Sharon (2000). "Velar Lenition in Muher Gurage", in: ''Lingua Posnaniensis'' 42, pp. 107–116.

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