Kwegu language
{{Short description|Surmic language spoken in Ethiopia}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Kwegu
|nativename=
|pronunciation=
|states=Ethiopia
|region= Southwest, Omo River west bank
|coordinates = {{coord|7.0|36.083}}
|pushpin_map = Ethiopia
|ethnicity={{sigfig|5110|2}} Kwegu (2007 census)
|speakers= ca. 300
|date=1987-1990
|familycolor=Nilo-Saharan
|fam2=Eastern Sudanic?
|fam3=Southern Eastern?
|fam4=Surmic
|fam5=South
|fam6=Southeast
|dia1=Yidinich (Yidinit)
|dia2=Muguji
|iso3=xwg
|glotto=kweg1241
|glottorefname=Kwegu
|ELP= 2677
}}
Kwegu (also Bacha, Koegu, Kwegi, Menja, Nidi) is a Surmic language spoken in the Southwest of Ethiopia, on the west bank of the Omo River.
References
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- Hieda, Osamu. 1998. "A sketch of Koegu grammar: Towards reconstructing Proto-Southeastern Surmic" in Gerrit Dimmendaal and Marco Last (eds.), Surmic Languages and Cultures. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp 345–373.
External links
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on [http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_koe Kwegu]
- [http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=new100&morpho=0&basename=new100\esu\srm&first=0 Kwegu basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database]
- ELAR archive of [http://elar.soas.ac.uk/deposit/0262 Koegu (Kwegu)]
{{Languages of Ethiopia}}
{{Eastern Sudanic languages}}
Category:Languages of Ethiopia
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