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Ganza language
Omotic language of Sudan and Ethiopia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ganza, also known as Ganzo or Koma, is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken in the Al Kurumik District of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.
It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.[1]
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Phonology
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.[2]: 106
Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowel lengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double vowels.[2]: 109
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References
- Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia
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