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Kwegu language

Kwegu is a Surmic language spoken in the Southwest of Ethiopia, on the west bank of the Omo River.

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Kwegu
Native toEthiopia
RegionSouthwest, Omo River west bank
Ethnicity5,100 Kwegu (2007 census)
Native speakers
(ca. 300 cited 1987-1990)1
Dialects
  • Yidinich (Yidinit)
  • Muguji
Language codes
ISO 639-3xwg
Glottologkweg1241
ELP
Kwegu
Coordinates: 7°00′00″N 36°04′59″E / 7.0°N 36.083°E / 7.0; 36.083

Kwegu (also Bacha, Koegu, Kwegi, Menja, Nidi) is a Surmic language spoken in the Southwest of Ethiopia, on the west bank of the Omo River.

References

References

  1. "Endangered Languages Project – Kwegu". Retrieved 6 March 2021.
Further reading

Further reading

  • Hieda, Osamu. 1998. "A sketch of Koegu grammar: Towards reconstructing Proto-Southeastern Surmic" in Gerrit Dimmendaal and Marco Last (eds.), Surmic Languages and Cultures. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp 345–373.
  • Osamu Hieda (2023). "Koegu (Muguji)". In Ronny Meyer; Zelealem Leyew; Bedilu Wakjira (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 742–757.
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