Sebat Bet Gurage language

Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia.

Overview

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One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects. The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region:

• Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties
• Mesqan is spoken in Meskan
• Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene
• Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene
• Geta is spoken in Geta
• Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer
• Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner

• Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor.

Notes

Further reading

• Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 373–397.
• Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp. 403–427.
• Fekede Menuta; Sascha Völlmin (2023). "Chaha group". In Ronny Meyer; Zelealem Leyew; Bedilu Wakjira (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 472–499.

External links

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Chaha

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