Gamo-Gofa-Dawro | |
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Native to | Ethiopia |
Region | Omo Region |
Native speakers
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2.0 million (2007 census) |
Afro-Asiatic
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Ethiopic, Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Variously: – Gamo – Gofa – Dawro |
Glottolog | dawr1235 |
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Dawro, Gamo Gofa and Wolayita Zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region in Ethiopia. Varieties are spoken by the Gamo, Gofa, Dawro; Blench (2006) and Ethnologue treat these as separate languages. Dialects of Dawro (Kullo-Konta) are Konta and Kucha. In 1992, Alemayehu Abebe collected a word-list of 322 entries for all three related dialects.