Dorze
Dorze is a Ta-Ne-Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Dorze is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Gamo Gofa Zone of Ethiopia. Alemayehu Abebe reports that while performing preliminary fieldwork in 1992, he found 14 kebeles in Chencha woreda with Dorze speakers.
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Words in Dorze
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | as* | |
| name | sunca* | |
| eye | afe* | |
| ear | hace* | |
| nose | sidi* | |
| tooth | ac* | |
| tongue | incEr* | |
| hand | kuSe* | |
| blood | suca* | |
| bone | meqec* | |
| skin | g3lba* | |
| breast | Tanca* | |
| liver | t3ri* | |
| water | haað | |
| fire | tama* | |
| sun | awa* | |
| star | colinte* | |
| stone | Suc* | |
| mountain | zuma* | |
| tree | mic* | |
| leaf | yECe* | |
| night | gidoc* | |
| dog | kana* | |
| fish | mole* | |
| louse | CuCe* | |
| one | isino* | |
| two | nam7a* | |
| I | tana* | |
| you | nena* | |
| we | nuna* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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