Sidamo languages
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Name (Latin)
Sidamo languages
Other forms of name
nne Sidama language
See Also From tracing topical name
Cushitic languages
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MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q56524
Library of congress:
sh 85122307
Wikipedia description:
Highland East Cushitic or Burji-Sidamo is a branch of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in south-central Ethiopia. They are often grouped with Lowland East Cushitic, Dullay, and Yaaku as East Cushitic. The most popular language is Sidama, with close to two million speakers. The languages are: The four to six Sidamoid languages are all closely related. Hadiyya and Libido are especially close, as are Kambaata and Alaba. Their relationship with Burji is more distant and was first proposed in 1940; it has been accepted widely but not universally.
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