Gamo-Gofa-Dawro language

Gamo-Gofa-Dawro
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Omo Region
Native speakers	2.0 million (2007 census)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Omotic Ometo North Gamo-Gofa-Dawro; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Ethiopic, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; gmv – Gamo; gof – Gofa; dwr – Dawro
Glottolog	dawr1235

Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Dawro, Gamo Gofa and Wolayita Zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region in Ethiopia. Varieties are spoken by the Gamo, Gofa, Dawro; Blench (2006) and Ethnologue treat these as separate languages. Dialects of Dawro (Kullo-Konta) are Konta and Kucha.^[2] In 1992, Alemayehu Abebe collected a word-list of 322 entries for all three related dialects.^[3]

Notes

^ Gamo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Gofa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Dawro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
^ * Alemayehu Abebe, "Ometo Dialect Pilot Survey Report" SIL Electronic Survey Reports SILESR 2002-068

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