| Bambassi | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Ethiopia | |
| Region | in Benishangul-Gumuz Region, east of Asosa | |
| Total speakers | 5000 | |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | – | |
| ISO 639-3 | myf | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Bambassi is an Omotic Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia around the town of Bambasi in the area east of Asosa in Benishangul-Gumuz Region.[1] The parent language group is the East Mao group. Alternative names for the language are Bambeshi, Siggoyo, Amam, Fadiro, Northern Mao, Didessa and Kere.
Similarities
Bambassi has a 31% lexical similarity with other Omotic languages.
Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics
References
Further reading
- Wedekind, Charlotte, Klaus Wedekind and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Third S.L.L.E. survey on languages of the Begi/Asosa area.", SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-056
External links
- "Map of the Bambassi language", LL-MAP website
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