Kachama-Ganjule language

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Kachama-Ganjule
Native to Ethiopia
Region on islands in Lake Chamo and Lake Abaya
Native speakers
2,800 (2007 census for Qechemigna)[1]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
Kachama
Ganjule
?Gidicho
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kcx
Glottolog kach1284[2]

Kachama-Ganjule is an Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia on islands in Lake Chamo and Lake Abaya. Kachama is spoken on Gidicho island in Lake Abaya, whereas Ganjule was originally spoken on a small island in Lake Chamo. Now the Ganjule speakers have relocated to the west shore of the Lake. There still are about 1,000 monolinguals in this language.[3]

Blench (2006) lists Gidicho, Kachama, and Ganjule as separate languages. Ethnologue gives Gatame/Get'eme/Gats'ame as a synonym; however, Blench treats that as a separate languages as well, a synonym with Haruro/Harro. While he moves the others to the northern branch of the Ometo languages, he leaves Gatame/Haruro in the eastern branch.[4] No evidence is presented for treating these as separate languages.

Notes

  1. Ethiopia 2007 Census
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  3. Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  4. Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List


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