Kistane
Kistane is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia.
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Soddo (autonym kəstane "Christian"; formerly called Aymälläl in Western sources, after a particular dialect of it) is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter million people in southern Ethiopia. It is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily. Its native speakers, the Soddo Gurage people (Kistane), live predominantly in the Soddo district of the Gurage Zone.
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Words in Kistane
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | sEb* | |
| name | S3m* | |
| eye | in* | |
| ear | 3nz3n* | |
| nose | EnfunE* | |
| tongue | mElEs* | |
| hand | wy* | |
| blood | dEm* | |
| bone | Et3m* | |
| skin | gogE* | |
| knee | gulbEt* | |
| breast | t3buiiE* | |
| liver | g3bot* | |
| water | igE* | |
| fire | wsEt* | |
| sun | i3mEr* | |
| star | kokEb* | |
| stone | 3mEiE* | |
| mountain | gEgErE* | |
| tree | zEf* | |
| leaf | k3tEl* | |
| night | mESEmEn* | |
| dog | wosE* | |
| fish | EsE* | |
| louse | k3mEl* | |
| one | Et* | |
| two | kit* | |
| I | 3di* | |
| we | 35E* | |
| drink | sETEm* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · kist1241 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · gru