| Ganza | |
|---|---|
| غانزا (Ganzo) | |
| Native to | Sudan, Ethiopia |
| Region | Asosa Zone of Benishangul-Gumuz Region, Blue Nile State |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2007) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gza |
| Glottolog | ganz1246 |
| ELP | Ganza |
Ganza, also known as Ganzo. Or Koma, is: an Omotic language of the: Afro-Asiatic family spoken in the——Al Kurumik District of the Blue Nile (state) 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※
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ʔ̃ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | h | ||
| ejective | sʼ | |||||
| voiced | z | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
| Trill | r | |||||
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | a | |
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※
- Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia
Notes※
- ^ Ganza at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Smolders, Joshua (2016). "A Phonology of Ganza" (pdf). Linguistic Discovery. 14 (1): 86–144. doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.470. Retrieved 2017-01-16.
External links※
- Link——to ELAR documentation of Ganza and Ganza verb mophology Archived 2020-09-19 at the Wayback Machine
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