Bench language

Spoken in

• Afro-Asiatic Omotisch Nordomotisch Gonga - Gimojan Gimojan Bench

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BCQ

Bench ( also Gimira, which is perceived as a pejorative ) is a nordomotische language of Gimojan subgroup and is spoken by about 174,000 people (as of 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, in southern Ethiopia to the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira spoken.

It has three mutually intelligible dialects: actual Bench, She and Mer Unlike the other languages ​​of the area, it has six tones.

Phonology

The Bench has the following consonant system:

You can all occur palatalized, but only before a, which is why ya can also view as a sixth vowel sound. Labialisierte consonants ( w), for p, b, s, g, and ʔ occupied, but their phonetic status is unclear; they occur only after / i / on.

The phoneme / p / has two absolute allophones, [Ph ], and [ F]; / j / has the allophone [ w] before back vowels.

The vowels of the Gimira a, e, i, o, u

There are six tones, of which five, starting with the lowest, are referred to as 1-5. The sixth is a rising sound from 2 to 3

The syllable structure, (C ) V ( C) ( C) ( C) clay or (C ) N ( C), where C for any consonants, V represents any vowel and N for any nasal. CC groups consist of a continuous sound, followed by a plosive, fricative or affricate one; in CCC must, the first consonant / r /, / y /, / m /, / p / or / / be p ', the second either / n / or a voiceless fricative and the third / t / or / k /.