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Dime or Dima is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the northern part of the Selamago district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia, around Mount Smith.[1] Dime divides into at least two dialects, which include Us'a and Gerfa. It has six case suffixes in addition to an unmarked nominative. It is overwhelmingly suffixing, but uses prefixes for demonstratives and reduplication. Phonologically, it is noteworthy among the Omotic languages for having velar and uvular fricative phonemes.[2] The basic word order is SOV (subject–object–verb), as in other Omotic languages, indeed as in all the languages of the core of the Ethiopian Language Area.

Dime
Native toEthiopia
RegionDebub (South) Omo Zone
Native speakers
570 (2007 census)[1]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
  • Omotic
    • South Omotic
      • Dime
Language codes
ISO 639-3dim
Glottologdime1235
ELPDimé

The language, as well as the Dime people themselves, reportedly decreased in numbers over the 20th century due to predation from their neighbors the Bodi, and both are in danger of extinction.[3] According to Ethiopian census figures, the 1994 census reported 6293 speakers of the Dime language in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region alone;[4] in the 2007 census, only 574 speakers were reported for all of Ethiopia.[5] Further, because the Dime language still lacks a writing system and there are no local schools to promote the use of the language, it is even more threatened.[2]


References


  1. Dime at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Seyoum, Mulugeta (2008). A grammar of Dime (Ph.D. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/12833.
  3. Fleming, Harold (1990). Richard Hayward (ed.). Omotic Language Studies. London: SOAS. p. 495. ISBN 9780728601666.
  4. 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Vol. 1, part 1, Table 2.14
  5. Central Statistical Agency. "Ethiopia - Population and Housing Census 2007 Report, National". International Household Survey Network.



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[de] Dime (Sprache)

Dime (auch Dima, Eigenbezeichnung dim-aaf, dim-ko-aaf) ist eine omotische Sprache, die im Südwesten Äthiopiens in der Kaffa-Region nördlich des Flusses Omo gesprochen wird. Es wird dem Südomotischen zugerechnet. Das Dime hat nur wenige Tausend Sprecher; 1998 wurden bei einer Volkszählung 6.501 erfasst[1]. Es besitzt drei Dialekte, die untereinander verständlich sind.
- [en] Dime language

[fr] Dime (langue)

Le dime (autonyme, dimaaf, ou décliné au génitif, dimkoaf, la bouche des Dime) est une langue afro-asiatique de la branche des langues couchitiques parlée en Éthiopie, dans la zone de l'Omo du Sud, par les Dime dont la population s'élevait en 1994 à 6 197 personnes[1].



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