Ganza language

Ganza
	غانزا
Native to	Sudan, Ethiopia
Region	Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region
Native speakers	3,000 (2007)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic Mao Ganza; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gza
Glottolog	ganz1246[2]

Ganza (also Ganzo, Koma) (Arabic: غانزا) is an Omotic language spoken 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.^[3]

Phonology

Consonants
		Bilabial		Alveolar		Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		plain	ejective	plain	ejective	Postalveolar	Palatal	plain	ejective	Glottal
Nasal		m		n				ŋ		ʔ̃
Plosive	voiceless	p	pʼ	t	tʼ			k	kʼ	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b		d				ɡ
Fricative	voiceless			s	sʼ	ʃ				h
Fricative	voiced			z
Approximant				l			j	w
Trill				r

Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.^[4]^:106

**Vowels**^[4]^: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.^[4]^:109

References

Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia

Notes

↑ Ganza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ganza". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
↑ "Ganza". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-23.
1 2 3 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.

External links

Link to ELAR documentation of Ganza and Ganza verb mophology

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[e18-1] Ganza at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ganza". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

[3] "Ganza". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2016-11-23.

[Smolders-2016-4] 1 2 3 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.