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Bambassi language

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Native to
  
Ethiopia

ISO 639-3
  
myf

Native speakers
  
(5,000 cited 1982)

Glottolog
  
bamb1262

Region
  
in Benishangul-Gumuz Region, east of Asosa

Language family
  
Afro-Asiatic Omotic Mao Bambassi

Bambassi is an Omotic Afroasiatic language spoken in Ethiopia around the towns of Bambasi and Didessa in the area east of Asosa in Benishangul-Gumuz Region. The parent language group is the East Mao group. Alternative names for the language are Bambeshi, Siggoyo, Amam, Fadiro, Northern Mao, Didessa and Kere.

The most current information on the number of Bambassi speakers is not known, as the 2007 census grouped the Mao languages together, despite low lexical similarity. 33,683 mother tongue speakers of Maogna (covering Bambassi, Hozo and Seze) were listed.

Similarities

Bambassi has a 31% lexical similarity with other Omotic languages.

References

Bambassi language Wikipedia