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Sebat Bet Gurage

Afro-Asiatic (Semitic, Ethiopian, Gurage)

FamilyAfro-Asiatic (Semitic, Ethiopian, Gurage) Speakers~440K ScriptGe'ez (Ethiopic) / Latin CountriesEthiopia Official inNo (Amharic is the federal working language); recognized regional Vitalitysafe ISO 639-3sgw

Sebat Bet Gurage (literally "Seven Houses Gurage" — a macrolanguage covering the western Gurage cluster of seven mutually intelligible varieties: Chaha, Ezha, Inor, Endegegn, Gumer, Geta, Muher) is an Ethiopian Semitic language of southwestern Ethiopia. The Gurage people are renowned across Ethiopia as merchants and entrepreneurs and have a distinctive ensete-based agricultural cuisine. Sebat Bet Gurage is the most documented Gurage variety thanks to Hetzron's (1972) classic work on Ethiopian Semitic.

Where it is spoken

31 core words in Sebat Bet Gurage

Water

ሞዬ

/moje/

Fire

እሳት

/ɨsat/

Sun

ፀሐይ

/tsʼɛhaj/

Moon

ጨረቃ

/tʃʼɛɾɛkʼa/

Star

ኮከብ

/kokəb/

Mother

ኤንም

/enɨm/

Father

አባ

/aba/

I

እያ

/ɨja/

You

አኸ

/axə/

Name

ስም

/sɨm/

Eye

አይን

/ajn/

Hand

እጅ

/ɨdʒ/

Heart

ልብ

/lɨb/

Love

ፍቅር

/fɨkʼɨr/

Tree

ዛፍ

/zaf/

House

ቤት

/bet/

Dog

ውሻ

/wɨʃa/

Cat

ድመት

/dɨmɛt/

Eat

ወቸ

/wɛtʃɛ/

Drink

ሰታ

/sɛta/

One

አት

/at/

Two

ቌት

/kʼʷət/

Hello

እንደምን

/ɨndɛmɨn/

Thank you

ኣምስከነለንት

/amɨskɛnɛlɛnt/

Good

ሞጨ

/motʃɛ/

Sources

Words compared

Compared with related Afro-Asiatic (Semitic, Ethiopian, Gurage) languages

Meaning Sebat Bet GurageAmharicTigreTigrinyaGe'ezBlinMandaic
Water ሞዬ /moje/ ውሃ /wɨha/ ማይ /maj/ ማይ /maj/ ማይ /maːj/ አኳ /akwa/ ࡌࡉࡀ /mia/
Fire እሳት /ɨsat/ እሳት /ɨssat/ እሳት /ʔəssat/ ሓዊ /ħawi/ እሳት /ʔəsaːt/ ላእ /laʔ/ ࡍࡅࡓࡀ /nura/
Sun ፀሐይ /tsʼɛhaj/ ፀሐይ /tsʼɛhaj/ ጸሓይ /tsʼəħaj/ ጸሓይ /tsʼəħaj/ ፀሐይ /sˤaħaj/ ኤርሕ /erəħ/ ࡔࡀࡌࡔࡀ /ʃamʃa/
Moon ጨረቃ /tʃʼɛɾɛkʼa/ ጨረቃ /tʃʼɛɾɛkʼa/ ወርሕ /waɾəħ/ ወርሒ /wərħi/ ወርኅ /warχ/ ቸራ /tʃəra/ ࡎࡉࡓࡀ /sira/
Star ኮከብ /kokəb/ ኮከብ /kokəb/ ኮከብ /kokəb/ ኮኸብ /koˈxəb/ ኮከብ /kokab/ ኰኵብ /kʷəkʷəb/ ࡊࡅࡊࡁࡀ /ˈkukba/
Mother ኤንም /enɨm/ እናት /ɨnnat/ እሞ /ʔəmmo/ ኣደ /ʔaddə/ እም /ʔəmm/ እና /əna/ ࡀࡌࡀ /ama/
Father አባ /aba/ አባት /abbat/ አቦ /ʔabbo/ ኣቦ /ʔabbo/ አብ /ʔab/ አባ /aba/ ࡀࡁࡀ /aba/
I እያ /ɨja/ እኔ /ɨne/ አነ /ʔana/ ኣነ /ˈʔanä/ አነ /ʔana/ አን /an/ ࡀࡍࡀ /ˈana/
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