Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a
North Omotic language spoken in western
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...
by the
Shinasha people
The Shinasha, also known as Bworo or Boro, are an ethnic group in northwestern Ethiopia. Shinasha language, Their language belongs to the North Omotic languages, North Omotic family (see Omotic languages). They live north of the Blue Nile in the ...
. 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 villag ...
: in the
Dangur, Bullen,
Dibate and
Wenbera districts, which are parts of the
Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Benishangul-Gumuz () is a regional state in northwestern Ethiopia
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Er ...
.
[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
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS University of London; ) 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 area ...
.
* 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-RO ...
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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