Kwegu language
| Kwegu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | Southwest, Omo River west bank |
Native speakers | 5,100 (2007 census)[1] |
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Nilo-Saharan?
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
xwg |
| Glottolog |
kweg1241[2] |
Kwegu (also Bacha, Koegu, Kwegi, Menja, Nidi) is a Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic language, spoken in the Southwest of Ethiopia, on the west bank of the Omo River.
Bibliography
- ↑ Kwegu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Kwegu". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hieda, Osamu. 1998. "A sketch of Koegu grammar: Towards reconstructing Proto-Southeastern Surmic" in Gerrit Dimmendaal and Marco Last (eds.), Surmic Languages and Cultures. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp 345–373.
External links
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Kwegu
- Kwegu basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- ELAR archive of Koegu (Kwegu)
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