Daats'iin language
| Daats'iin | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | Benishangul-Gumuz Region |
| Ethnicity | Gumuz |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | None |
Daats'iin is a Gumuz language of western Ethiopia. It was first reported in 2013 and described by Colleen Ahland in 2014. She has described it further in 2016. Of the other Gumuz languages, Daats'íin has the greatest lexical similarity to Southern Gumuz, but the two groups communicate in Arabic or Amharic.
The community of speakers is in western Ethiopia, very near the Sudan border, just north of where the Blue Nile River crosses from Ethiopia into Sudan.
Daats'íin has several grammatical differences from other Gumuz languages. Verbs inflect for aspect (perfective–imperfective) rather than for tense (future–non-future). Verbs are polysynthetic in all languages, but the order of the morphemes differs in Daats'iin, and some morphemes that occur in one language do not occur in the other(s). "The major constituent order in Daats'íin clauses tend to be AVO/SV."
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