Mursi language

Spoken in

  • Nilo-Saharan Ostsudanische languages Surmische languages

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Mursi is a language that is spoken by the same people of the Mursi in southwest Ethiopia. Other names for Mursi are Dama, Merdu, Meritu, Murzi or Murzu.

Mursi is one of the surmischen languages ​​, which are among the ostsudanischen languages ​​within the Nilo-Saharan language family. The next relationship is about Chai and Tirma.

Phonology

The transcriptions in this section, follow the International Phonetic Alphabet.

Mursi knows 7 vowels and 22 consonants. The vowels can be at any point in a word. The vowels of Mursi are i, e, ɛ, a, ɔ, o, and u

The 22 consonants are

Written language

Originally, there was no written form of Mursi. Today, however, based on two different scripts spellings exist. Which is based on the Ethiopic script writing was in 1989 by Protestant missionaries developed together with Mursi from the region Makki on Mago. The second based on the Latin alphabet font was originally developed at the University of Addis Ababa for transcription and as phonetics.

Sources

  • Single language
  • Nilo -Saharan African languages
Eastern Sudanic languages Surmic languages Mursi people Bilabial consonant Alveolar consonant Palatal consonant Velar consonant Glottal consonant Transcription (linguistics) Phonetic transcription#Types of notational systems
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