Writing system none | Native speakers 3,000 (2007) ISO 639-3 gza | |
Language family Afro-AsiaticOmoticMaoGanza | ||
Ganza (also Ganzo, Koma) (Arabic: غانزا) is an Afro-Asiatic language (Omotic), 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.
Phonology
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.
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.
References
Ganza language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA