Anfillo language

Spoken in

  • Afro-Asiatic languages Omotische languages Nordomotische languages Gonga - Gimojan languages Gonga Zentralgonga

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Myo

Anfillo is a nordomotische language that is spoken by about 500 people in western Ethiopia. As Anfillo both the language as well as the members of a small community in the Woreda Anfillo, which is a part of the mirab - Welega zone, respectively. The language is in danger of extinction, as it is only spoken by over 60 -year-olds. Younger people make use of the Nilo- Saharan language of Busase. In Anfillo there are five vowels and 22 consonants. Long vowels and consonants occur and may be of value phonemischem. The normal word order is subject-object - verb. Adjectives precede the corresponding noun. Verbs in tense, aspect and mode bent. Three tenses, past, present and future are expressed morphologically. Gender and number are expressed by the vocabulary.

Swell

  • Goshu, Debela & Demeke, Girma Awgichew 'Some points on Anfillo ' ( unpublished handout, International Conference on Endangered Languages ​​Ethiopian, Addis Ababa 27 to 30 April 2005).
  • Wedekind, Klaus & Wedekind, Charlotte ( 2002) ' Sociolinguistic Survey Report on Languages ​​of the Begi - Asosa Komosha area, Part II' (SIL Electronic Survey Report 2002-055 ). [ contains a map ]
Language family Gonga (band) Districts of Ethiopia Grammatical aspect Grammatical number SIL International
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