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    The Gurage (/ɡʊəˈrɑːɡeɪ/, Gurage: ጉራጌ, ቤተ-ጉርዓ, ቤተ-ጉራጌ) are a Semitic-speaking ethnic group inhabiting Ethiopia. They inhabit the Gurage Zone and East...
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  • it) is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter million people in southeastern Ethiopia. It is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily...
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  • houses") is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia. One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several...
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  • Ennemor, is an Afroasiatic language spoken in central Ethiopia. One of the Gurage languages, it is mainly spoken within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations...
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    Gurage is a zone in the Central Ethiopia Regional State of Ethiopia. The region is home to the Gurage people. Gurage is bordered on the southeast by Hadiya...
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  • Chaha and Amharic: ቸሃ čehā or čexā) is a Gurage language spoken in central Ethiopia, mainly within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities...
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    subset of the Gurage and speak the Soddo Gurage language or Kistanigna (ክስታንኛ). They primarily inhabit the Soddo (woreda) in the Gurage Zone, but large...
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  • Soddo–Mesqan–Gurage Soddo Mesqan–Gurage Mesqan Gurage Muher Chaha–Inor Silt'e–Zay–Harari Harari Silt'e, Zay Argobba–Amharic "Languages of Sudan". Ethnologue...
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  • Afroasiatic language of the Semitic branch spoken in Ethiopia. It is one of the Gurage languages in the Ethiopian Semitic group. The Zay language has around...
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    Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the Semitic Gurage languages...
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  • The Mesmes language is an extinct West Gurage language, one of the Ethiopian Semitic languages spoken in Ethiopia. There are still many people who claim...
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  • A.J. (1997). "The story of Joseph in Sïltʼi Gurage", in: Grover Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage language and culture: dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the...
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  • Ethiopian Semitic language belonging to the Gurage group. It is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene in Ethiopia. The language has two dialects...
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    central Eritrean lowlands and parts of eastern Sudan. A number of Gurage languages are spoken by populations in the semi-mountainous region of central...
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  • related to the Eastern Gurage languages, Zay, and Silt'e, all of whom are believed to be linked to the now extinct Semitic Harla language. Locals or natives...
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    ʿAṯtar (category Articles containing Eastern Gurage-language text)
    Geʽez ክራምት (kəramt), Amharic ክረምት (krämt), Tigrē ካራም (karam), and Eastern Gurage ከርም (kärm), all meaning "rainy season." Kirrūm was thus a form of ʿAṯtar...
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  • Welega Zone. Gafat was related to the Harari language and Eastern Gurage languages. The records of this language are extremely sparse. There is a translation...
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  • Rhinoglottophilia (category Articles containing Proto-Indo-Iranian-language text)
    Inor, one of the Gurage languages. Inor has nasal vowels, unusual for a Gurage language, and in many cases these occur where the language etymologically...
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    Geʽez script (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
    It has also been used to write Sebat Bet and other Gurage languages and at least 20 other languages of Ethiopia. In Eritrea it has traditionally been used...
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  • Region (SNNPR). The closely related Libido language, located just to the north in the Mareko district of Gurage Zone, is very similar lexically, but has...
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  • Amharic (redirect from Amharic (language))
    characterized as foreign invaders. Amharic is a South Ethio-Semitic language, along with Gurage, Argobba, Harari, and others. Due to the social stratification...
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  • dozens of singers in the Oromo language including the pop star Saiha Sami, and Desaligne Mersah in the Gurage language. He also arranged the popular Amharic...
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    Harari people (category Articles containing Harari-language text)
    Harari language, an Ethiosemitic language referred to as Gey Sinan or Gēy Ritma ("Language of the City"). It is closely related to the eastern Gurage languages...
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  • Gafat people (category CS1 Italian-language sources (it))
    the Afroasiatic languages and closely related to Harari and Eastern Gurage languages. According to Alleqa Taye, in the year 1922 Gafat was only spoken privately...
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    Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (category Semitic languages)
    branch of Afroasiatic. Blench even wonders whether the highly divergent Gurage languages indicate an origin in Eritrea/Ethiopia (with the rest of Ethiopic/Eritreran...
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  • Robert Hetzron (category Linguists of Afroasiatic languages)
    Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli. Hetzron, R. (1996). "The two futures in Central and Peripheral Western Gurage". In Grover...
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  • Mesqan (also Mäsqan or Meskan) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the Gurage people in the Gurage Zone of Ethiopia. It belongs to the family's Ethiopian...
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  • Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan Soddo (woreda), in the Gurage Zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia Soddo language, a Gurage language spoken in southeastern Ethiopia O-Ie Sōdō, noble...
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    Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (category Articles containing Amharic-language text)
    formerly the only official language). The 1994 census reported that the predominantly spoken languages include Sidamo (18%), Gurage (14.72%), Welayta (11.53%)...
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    Afroasiatic languages with a significant number of speakers include the Cushitic Sidamo, Afar, Hadiyya and Agaw languages, as well as the Semitic Gurage languages...
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