Inor language

Inor
	Ennemor
Spoken in	Ethiopia
Native speakers	280,000 (date missing)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Ethiopian Semitic South Outer West Gurage Inor; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ior
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Inor (pronounced [inoːr]), sometimes called Ennemor, is a Semitic language spoken in central Ethiopia, mainly within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, and by speakers of the language who have settled in Ethiopian cities, especially Addis Ababa. In addition to the morphological complexity that is common to all Semitic languages, Inor exhibits the very complex morphophonology characteristic of West Gurage languages.

Endegegn, Enner, Gyeto, and the extinct dialect Mesmes are all sometimes considered dialects of Inor.

Inor possesses nasal vowels, unusual for a Gurage language, and many of these may be the result of historical rhinoglottophilia.

[edit] Phonology

Inor consonants^[1]
		labial		alveolar	alveo- palatal	palatal	velar			glottal
		plain	labialized	alveolar	alveo- palatal	palatal	plain	palatalized	lab.	plain	lab.
Stops and affricates	ejective			t’	tʃ’		k’	kʲ’	kʷ’
	voiceless	p	pʷ	t	tʃ		k	kʲ	kʷ	ʔ	ʔʷ
	voiced	b	bʷ	d	dʒ		ɡ	ɡʲ	ɡʷ
Fricatives	voiceless	f	fʷ	s	ʃ		x	xʲ	xʷ
Fricatives	voiced			z	ʒ
Nasals		m	mʷ	n	ɳ	ɲ	ŋ
Approximants	plain	β̞		(l)		j			w
Approximants	nasalized	β̞̃
Rhotics	plain			r
Rhotics	nasalized			r̃

[ɨ] may be regarded as largely epenthetic and only marginally phonemic.^[3]

Berhanu Chamora. "Consonant distribution in Inor", in: G. Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage Language and Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 53–67.
Chamora, Berhanu; Hetzron, Robert (2000), Inor, Munich: Lincom Europa, ISBN 3-89586-977-5
Bustorf, Dirk. (2005). "Ennämor Ethnography”, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2: D-Ha, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 307-08.
Boivin, Robert (1996). "Spontaneous Nasalization in Inor", in: G. Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage Language and Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 21–33.
Hetzron, R. (1977). The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
Leslau, W. (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02041-5
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Leslau, W. (1996). "Inor Lullabies", in: Africa 66/2, pp. 280–287.
Voigt, Rainer.(2005). "Ennämor Language”, in: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2: D-Ha, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, p. 307.

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