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Survey of Zayse, Zergulla and Related Speech Varieties

Relation Text: 
SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2015-025
Statement of Responsibility: 
Hussein Mohammed, Linda Jordan and Carol Magnusson
Issue Date: 
2016
Abstract: 

This is a paper reporting on a dialect survey of Zayse, Zergulla and related Omotic speech varieties in the area directly west and southwest of Lake Chamo in southwestern Ethiopia. Wordlists were taken of eight speech varieties (Zayse, Zergulla, Mele, Balta, Gerbansa, Ganta, Shara and North Gamo), and recorded text testing was done in one village among Ganta speakers.

Extent: 
35 pages
Subject: 
Survey Report
Recorded Text Test (RTT)
Omotic
Language Surveys
Country: 
Ethiopia
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