Ganza language (original) (raw)
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Omotic language of Sudan and Ethiopia
| Ganza | |
|---|---|
| غانزا Ganzo | |
| Native to | Sudan, Ethiopia |
| Region | Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Blue Nile State |
| Native speakers | 3,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language family | Afro-Asiatic OmoticNorthMaoGanza |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gza |
| Glottolog | ganz1246 |
| ELP | Ganza |
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]
| | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | | | | -------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Nasal | m | n | | ŋ | ʔ̃ | | | Plosive | voiceless | p | t | | k | ʔ | | ejective | pʼ | tʼ | | kʼ | | | | voiced | b | d | | ɡ | | | | Fricative | voiceless | | s | ʃ | | h | | ejective | | sʼ | | | | | | voiced | | z | | | | | | Approximant | | l | j | w | | | | Trill | | r | | | | |
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.[2]: 106
Vowels[2]: 107
| | Front | Back | | | ------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Close | i | u | | Mid | e | o | | Open | a | |
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
- Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia
- ^ a b Ganza at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b c Smolders, Joshua (2016). "A Phonology of Ganza" (pdf). Linguistic Discovery. 14 (1): 86–144. doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470. Retrieved 2017-01-16.