Mursi language
Mursi (also Dama, Merdu, Meritu, Murzi, Murzu) is a Surmic language spoken by the Mursi people, in the central Omo region of southwest Ethiopia. It is similar to Suri, spoken in most of the immediately surrounding area.
| Mursi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Ethiopia |
| Region | Central Omo |
| Ethnicity | Mursi |
Native speakers | 7,400 (2007 census)[1] |
Nilo-Saharan?
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| Ethiopic | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | muz |
| Glottolog | murs1242[2] |
Notes
- Ethiopia 2007 Census
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mursi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Bibliography
- Bender, M. Lionel and David Turton. 1976. "Mursi". The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp. 533–561.
- D. Turton, M. Yigezu and O. Olibui. 2008. Mursi-English-Amharic Dictionary. Addis Ababa: Culture and Arts Society of Ethiopia.
- Yigezu, Moges and David Turton. 2005. Latin based Mursi Orthography. ELRC Working Papers, Ethiopian Languages Research Center, Addis Ababa University, 1:2, pp. 242-57 (2005).
External links
- Mursi Online, University of Oxford
- Mursi basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
- World Atlas of Language Structures information on Mursi
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