Kwegu language

Surmic language spoken in Ethiopia
Kwegu
Native toEthiopia
RegionSouthwest, Omo River west bank
Ethnicity5,100 Kwegu (2007 census)
Native speakers
(ca. 300 cited 1987-1990)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
Dialects
  • Yidinich (Yidinit)
  • Muguji
Language codes
ISO 639-3xwg
Glottologkweg1241
ELP
  • 2677
  • Kwegu
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

  1. ^ "Endangered Languages Project – Kwegu". Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  • 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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Part of the proposed Nilo-Saharan language family
Northern k languages
Nubian
Hill Nubian
Nara
Nyima
Taman
Southern n languages
Surmic
North
Southeast
Southwest
Eastern Jebel
Temein
Daju
Eastern
Western
Nilotic
Large group listed below
Eastern
Bari
Teso–Turkana
Lotuko
Ongamo–Maa
Western
Dinka–Nuer
Luo
Northern
Southern
Burun
Southern
Kalenjin
Elgon
Nandi–Markweta
Okiek–Mosiro
Pökoot
Omotik–Datooga
Italics indicate extinct languages


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