Sebat Bet Gurage language

Sebat Bet ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia.

Sebat Bet Gurage
ሰባት ቤት ጉራጌ‎ (Səbat Bet Gurage)
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	West Gurage Zone
Ethnicity	3.2 million Gurage (2022)[1]
Native speakers	2.5 million (2022)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Outer West Gurage Sebat Bet Gurage
Dialects	Chaha Ezha Gumer Endegegn Gyeto Muher Enemor
Writing system	Geʽez script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sgw
Glottolog	seba1251

Overview

One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects.^[2] The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region:

• Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties
• Mesqan is spoken in Meskan
• Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene
• Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene
• Geta is spoken in Geta
• Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer
• Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner

• Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor.