Zay language
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| Zay | ||
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Region: | Lake Zway | |
| Total speakers: | 4,880 | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Ethiopic Transverse East Gurage Zay |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | sem | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | zwa | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Zay language is one of the Ethiopic languages. It is spoken by about 4,880 members of the Zay people on the islands and shores of Lake Zway in southern Ethiopia. It is also known as Zway, or Lak'i/Laqi in the neighboring Oromo language.
[edit] References
- Ambaw Demissie (1990), The phonology of Zay: A generative approach. M.A. thesis. Addis Ababa University.
- Getu Shikur (1999), Morphology of Zay. M.A. thesis. Addis Ababa University.
- Wolf Leslau (1999), Zway Ethiopic Documents. Aethiopische Forschungen, Band 51. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-04162-5.
- Ronny Meyer (2005), Das Zay: Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Äthiosemitisch). Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, vol. 25. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. ISBN 3-89645-541-9.
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