Dizin language
| Dizin | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
Native speakers | 34,000 (2007 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mdx |
| Glottolog | dizi1235 |
Dizin (often called “Dizi” or “Maji” in the literature) is an
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region, located in southwestern Ethiopia.[2] The 2007 census listed 33,927 speakers.[3]
A population of 17,583 was identified as monolinguals in 1994.[4]
The language has basic
contour tones
. Western Dizin has phonemic retroflex consonants. The glottal stop is analyzed as phonemic word initially before nasals, but not phonemic elsewhere". (Beachy 2005:iv)
Dizin, together with the Sheko and Nayi languages, is part of a cluster of languages variously called "Maji" or "Dizoid".
Notes
- ^ Ethiopia 2007 Census
- ^ The 1994 Population and Housing census of the SNNPR Region: Volume I, Part I, Table 2.15. According to Table 2.16, Dizin is second to Amharic in the number of speakers in the woreda's towns of Maji, Jeba and Tum.
- ^ Ethiopia 2007 Census
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
References
- Allan, Edward. 1976. Dizi. In The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, M. Lionel Bender, ed., pp. 377–392. East Lansing, Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University.
- Beachy, Marvin Dean. 2005. An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology. M.A. thesis, University of Texas at Arlington.
- Breeze, Mary. 1988. Phonological features of Gimira and Dizi. In Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst and Fritz Serzisko (eds.), Cushitic – Omotic: papers from the International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic languages, Cologne, January 6–9, 1986, 473–487. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag.
- Muldrow, William. 1976. Languages of the Maji area. In Language in Ethiopia, ed. by Bender, Bowen, Cooper, and Ferguson, pp. 603–607. Oxford University Press.
- Beachy, Marvin Dean (2007). An Overview of Central Dizin Phonology and Morphology (MA thesis). University of Texas at Arlington. hdl:10106/206.
- Savá, Graziano and Mauro Tosco. An Annotated Edition of Father G. Toselli’s Dizi Grammar. (Cushitic and Omotic Studies, 5.) Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2016); viii,185 pp., 3 maps, 128illus., 9 tables, graphs.
External links
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Dizi
- Dizi basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
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