Sebat Bet Gurage

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Sebat Bet Gurage is a cluster of closely related Gurage languages spoken in Ethiopia, primarily in the Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Sebat Bet Gurage canonical 3
Sebat Bet 1
Sebat Bet Guragigna 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Gurage language variety
Southern Ethiopian language
cluster of languages
continent Africa
country Ethiopia
ethnolinguisticGroup Sebat Bet Gurage communities
hasAlternativeName Sebat Bet
linked to: Sebat Bet Gurage

Sebat Bet Guragigna
linked to: Sebat Bet Gurage
hasDialect Chaha
Endegen
Ezha
Geto
Gumer
Gurage Inor
linked to: Gurage

Muher
hasDialectCluster Chaha–Inor group
hasLinguisticFeature complex verb morphology
emphatic consonants
root-and-pattern morphology
vowel length distinctions
hasSociolinguisticSituation multilingual with Amharic and other Ethiopian languages
ISO639Status has individual codes for some member varieties
isSpokenByMinority true
languageBranch Semitic
languageFamily Afroasiatic
languageSubbranch South Ethiopic
linguisticArea Ethiopian Sprachbund
neighboringLanguage Amharic
Other Gurage languages
partOf Gurage languages continuum
linked to: Gurage languages
primaryLocationType rural areas
region central Ethiopia
secondaryLocationType small towns
spokenIn Ethiopia
Gurage Zone
linked to: Gurage

Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
subclassOf Gurage languages
Semitic languages
South Ethiopic languages
linked to: South Ethiopic
usedBy Gurage people
usedFor daily communication
local administration
oral literature
writingSystem Geʽez script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Geʽez script usedForLanguage Sebat Bet Gurage
Gurage languages hasLanguage Sebat Bet Gurage
Sebat Bet Gurage hasAlternativeName Sebat Bet
linked to: Sebat Bet Gurage
Sebat Bet Gurage hasAlternativeName Sebat Bet Guragigna
linked to: Sebat Bet Gurage