Shinasha language

Shinasha
Boro
Region	Ethiopia
Native speakers	38,000 (2007 census)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Omotic Gonga Shinasha
Dialects	Amuru Wembera Gamila Guba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bwo
Glottolog	boro1277[2]

Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a North Omotic language spoken in western Ethiopia by the Shinasha people. Its speakers live in scattered areas north of the Abay River: in the Dangur, Dibate and Wenbera districts, which are parts of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.^[3]

Notes

1. Ethiopia 2007 Census
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Boro (Ethiopia)". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Boro, a language of Ethiopia", Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

References

• Lamberti, Marcello (1993) Die Shinassha-Sprache – Materialien zum Boro. Heidelberg. Universitätsverlag C. Winter.

Further reading

• Franz Rottland (1990), "A sketch of Shinasha morphology", Omotic Language Studies, Richard Hayward (editor), pp. 185–209. London: SOAS.
• Idar Bergfjord (2013), Issues in Borna Phonology, MA thesis, University of Oslo

External links

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Shinassha
• Website maintained by the language community, with published literature, including an online dictionary