Soddo language
Gurage language spoken in Ethiopia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Soddo (autonym kəstane "Christian"; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources, after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter million people in southeastern Ethiopia. It is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily. Its native speakers, the Soddo Gurage people (Kistane), live predominantly in the Soddo district of the Gurage Zone.[citation needed]
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Soddo | |
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Kəstane | |
Native to | Ethiopia |
Region | Gurage Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region |
Ethnicity | Soddo |
Native speakers | (260,000 cited 1994 census)[1] |
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Geʽez script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | gru |
Glottolog | kist1241 |
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