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Kwegu language

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Kwegu
Native toEthiopia
RegionSouthwest, Omo River west bank
Native speakers
5,100 (2007 census)[1]
Dialects
  • Yidinich (Yidinit)
  • Muguji
Language codes
ISO 639-3xwg
Glottologkweg1241
ELPKwegu

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

Bibliography

  1. ^ Kwegu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  • 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.


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