Tsamai language

Tsamai language

language
name=Tsamai
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
states=Ethiopia
region=Omo Region
speakers=8,621 including 5,298 monolinguals (1998)
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Cushitic
fam3=East
fam4=Dullay
iso3=tsb

Tsamai (also known as Ts'amay, S'amai, Tamaha, Tsamako, Tsamakko, Bago S'amakk-Ulo, Kuile, Kule, Cule) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Notes

References

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

Further reading

* Graziano Savà. 2005. "A Grammar of Ts'amakko". Cushitic Language Studies Volume 22. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.


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