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Tirma-Chai

Tirma-Chai is a Surmic language spoken in Ethiopia and South Sudan. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Tirma-Chai · 6.0°N 35.1°E

Suri (Churi, Dhuri, Shuri, Shuro) is a Surmic language spoken in the West Omo Zone of the South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region in Ethiopia, to the South Sudan border by the Suri. The language has over 80% lexical similarity to Mursi. The language is often referred to by another form of its name, Surma, after which the Surmic branch of Eastern Sudanic is named, but that form is frequently used for the three related languages spoken by the Surma people: Suri, Mursi, and Me'en.

Suri is spoken in two dialect by two nationalities, the Tirma (Tirmaga, Cirma, Dirma, Terema, Terna, Tid, Tirima, Tirmagi) and the Chai (Caci, Cai).

From Wikipedia · Suri language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Words in Tirma-Chai

MeaningWordRomanization
personhiri*
namesara*
eyekari*
ear5abi*
nosegiro5*
toothnigiyay*
tonguekayo*
handsiyo*
blood5awa*
bonegiga*
skineri*
kneekomi*
breastludun*
livertara*
waterma*
firego*
sunsu7*
starmu5u5i*
stonebe*
mountainkutul*
treekeyo*
leafbalogi*
nightbelei*
dogroso*
fish7urgusi*
louseu5joi*
onedone*
tworaman*
Ia5e*
youi5e*

* 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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