Sidamo language

Sidamo language

language
name=Sidamo
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Ethiopia
region=south central region
speakers=1,876,329
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Cushitic
fam3=East
fam4=Highland
iso2=sid
iso3=sid

Sidamo is an Afro-Asiatic language, belonging to the Cushitic branch, part of the Highland East Cushitic group. It is spoken in parts of southern Ethiopia. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

The term "Sidamo" has also been used by some authors to refer to larger groupings of East Cushitic and even Omotic languages.

Sidamo vocabulary has been influenced by Ge'ez and Amharic, and has in turn influenced Oromo vocabulary.

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=sid Ethnologue entry for Sidamo]

Grammars

* Abebe Gebre-Tsadik (1982) "Derived nominals in Sidamo," B.A. thesis, Addis Ababa University. Addis Ababa.
* Abebe Gebre-Tsadik. 1985. "An overview of the morphological structure of Sidamo verbs," "The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji". Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 2. Cologne: Institut für Afrikanistik. Pages 64-81.
* Anbessa Teferra (1984) "Sidamo verb morphology," B.A. thesis, Addis Ababa University. Addis Ababa.
* Anbessa Teferra. 2000. "A grammar of Sidaama," Doctoral dissertation. Jerusalem, Israel: The Hebrew University.
* Cerulli, Enrico (1938) "La Lingua e la Storia del Sidamo" (Studi Etiopici II). Rome: Istituto per l’Oriente.
* Cohen, Marcel (1927) "Du verbe sidama (dans le groupe couchitique)," "Bulletin de la Société de la Linguistique de Paris" 83: 169-200.
* Gasparini, Armido (1978) "Grammatica Practica della Lingua Sidamo". Awasa (Mimeographed: 127 pp.).
* Kawachi, Kazuhiro (2007) "A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia," Doctoral dissertation. State University of New York at Buffalo.
* Moreno, Martino Mario (1940) "Manuale di Sidamo". Milan: Mondadori. (This is apparently available at least in parts on the [http://www.rosettaproject.org/archive/sid/view?searchterm=Sidamo Rosetta Project] site.)

Dictionaries

* Gasparini, Armido (1983) "Sidamo-English dictionary". Bologna, Italy: E.M.I.
* Hudson, Grover (1989) "Highland East Cushitic Dictionary" (Kuschitische Sprachstudien 7). Hamburg: Buske.
* Sileshi Worqineh and Yohannis Latamo (1995) "Sidaamu-Amaaru-Ingilizete Afii Qaalla Taashsho" [Sidaama-Amharic-English Dictionary] . Awasa: Sidaamu Zoone Wogattenna Isporte Biddishsha [Sidaama Zone Sports and Culture Department] .

Bible translations

* British and Foreign Bible Society (1933) "St. Mark’s Gospel in Sidamo". London.
* Ethiopian Bible Society (1984) "HaÌro GondoÌro" [New Testament of Sidamo] . Addis Ababa.

External links

* [http://www.msu.edu/~hudson/HECrefs.htm Bibliography of Highland East Cushitic] by [http://www.msu.edu/%7Ehudson/index.htm Grover Hudson at the Michigan State University website] .
* [http://www.panafril10n.org/wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Sidamo PanAfrican L10n page on Sidamo]


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