Shakacho language

Shekkacho
	Mocha
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	North Kafa region
Native speakers	80,000 (2007 census)[1]
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Omotic North Gonga Kafa–Shekkacho Shekkacho; ; ; ; ;
Writing system	Ethiopic, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	moy
Glottolog	shek1244[2]

Shekkacho (also Mocha, Shakacho, Shekka) is an Afro-Asiatic Omotic language, spoken mainly in Sheka Zone at southwestern Ethiopia. It is closely related to Kafa.

Notes

Ethiopia 2007 Census
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Shekkacho". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Bibliography

Leslau, Wolf. 1958. “Moča, A Tone Language of The Kafa Group in South-Western Ethiopia.” Africa 28: 135-147.
Leslau, Wolf. 1959. A Dictionary of Moča (South-Western Ethiopia). Los Angeles: University of California Press.

External links

World Atlas of Language Structures information on Moca

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[1] Ethiopia 2007 Census

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