Native to Ethiopia Writing system Ethiopic, Latin | Region Omo Region | |
Native speakers 2.0 million (2007 census) Language family Afro-Asiatic
Omotic
North Omotic
Ometo
North
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro ISO 639-3 Variously:
gmv – Gamo
gof – Gofa
dwr – Dawro | ||
Gamo-Gofa-Dawro is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the Dawro, Gamo Gofa and Wolayita Zones of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region in Ethiopia. Varieties are spoken by the Gamo, Gofa, Dawro; Blench (2006) and Ethnologue treat these as separate languages. Dialects of Dawro (Kullo-Konta) are Konta and Kucha. In 1992, Alemayehu Abebe collected a word-list of 322 entries for all three related dialects.
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