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Sheko is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the area between Tepi and Mizan Teferi in western
Ethiopia, in the Sheko district in the Bench Maji Zone. The 2007 census lists 38,911 speakers; the 1998 census listed 23,785
speakers, with 13,611 identified as monolinguals. The language is notable for its retroflex consonants (Aklilu Yilma 1988),
a striking feature shared with closely related Dizi and nearby (but not closely related) Bench (Breeze 1988). The Ethnologue
lists the following linguistic features: SOV; postpositions; genitives, articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun
heads; question word initial; 1 prefix, 5 suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects; affixes
indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark person, number, gender of subject; passives, causatives, comparatives; CV,
CVC, CVV, CV:C, CVCC; tonal, 3 tones. Sheko, together with the Dizi and Nayi languages, is part of a cluster of languages
variously called Maji or Dizoid. |
Names (more)[an] Idioma shako[en] Sheko language [fr] Sheko [pt] Língua sheko |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : sheLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/shehttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:she More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: sheFreebase ISO 639-3 : she GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |