Английская Википедия:Bambassi language
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Bambassi (native name: Màwés Aasʼè[1]) is an Omotic Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia around the towns of Bambasi and Didessa in the area east of Asosa in Benishangul-Gumuz Region.[2] The parent language group is the East Mao group. Alternative names for the language are Bambeshi, Siggoyo, Amam, Fadiro, Northern Mao, Didessa and Kere.
The most current information on the number of Bambassi speakers is not known, as the 2007 census grouped the Mao languages together, despite low lexical similarity. 33,683 mother tongue speakers of Maogna (covering Bambassi, Hozo and Seze) were listed.[3]
Similarities
Bambassi has a 31% lexical similarity with other Omotic languages.
Phonology
Bambassi has 5 vowels: /a, e, i, o, u/. The vowels have lengthened forms, and Bambassi has contrastive vowel length.[4]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | g | |||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | |||
| Affricate | t͡sʼ | (t͡ʃ) | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | h | ||
| voiced | z | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
Orthography
Vowels and tones
- a - [a]
- aa - [aː]
- e - [e]
- ee - [eː]
- i - [i]
- ii - [iː]
- o - [o]
- oo - [oː]
- u - [u]
- uu - [uː]
- á - high tone
- a - middle tone
- à - low tone
Consonants
- b - [b]
- c' - [t͡s']
- ch - [t͡ʃ]
- d - [d]
- g - [g]
- h - [h]
- k - [k]
- k' - [k']
- l - [l]
- m - [m]
- n - [n]
- ng - [ŋ]
- p - [p/f/ɸ]
- p' - [p']
- r - [ɾ]
- s - [s]
- sh - [ʃ]
- t - [t]
- t' - [t']
- w - [w]
- y - [j]
- z - [z]
Notes
Further reading
- Ahland, Michael. 2009. "Aspects of Northern Mao (Bambassi-Diddesa) phonology."Linguistic Discovery 7: 1-42.
- Alemayehu Dumessa. 2007. Word Formation in Diddessa Mao. Addis Ababa University, MA thesis. Web access
- Wedekind, Charlotte, Klaus Wedekind and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Third S.L.L.E. survey on languages of the Begi/Asosa area.", SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-056
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