Soddo language
Also known as
- North Gurage,
- Soddo,
- Kistane
Soddo (autonym kəstane "Christian"; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources, after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by about 300,000 people in southeastern Ethiopia. It is a South Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily.
As in most Ethiopian languages, noun qualifier generally precede the noun.
The definite article is expressed by the suffix -i, e.g.: goš "boy" > goš-i "the boy"; ätit "sister" > ätiti "the sister"; bayyočč "children" > bayyočč-i....
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Language
| Main Country |
| Dialects |
| Language Family |
| Writing System |
| Region |
| ISO 639-3 Code |
- gru
| ISO 639-2 Code |
| ISO 639-1 Code |
| Rosetta Project Code |
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