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The Gurage languages (Gurage: ጉራጌ), also known as Guragie, is a dialect-continuum language, which belong to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are spoken by the Gurage people, who inhabit the Gurage Zone within the larger multi-ethnic Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region in central Ethiopia.

East Gurage
Geographic distribution	Gurage Zone (Ethiopia)
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Ethiopic Transversal South Ethiopic Harari – East Gurage East Gurage
Glottolog	silt1239  (Silte–Wolane) zayy1238  (Zay)

North Gurage
n-group
Geographic distribution	Gurage Zone (Ethiopia)
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Ethiopic Outer South Ethiopic North Gurage
Glottolog	ngro1237

West Gurage
tt-group
Geographic distribution	Gurage Zone (Ethiopia)
Linguistic classification	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Ethiopic Outer South Ethiopic West Gurage
Glottolog	ttgr1237

Overview

The Gurage dialects form what is collectively called Guragigna or Guragigna. Almost all of the dialects are intelligible with other dialects indicating that they have organic relationships as well as indicating that they originated from a proto-Gurage language. Guragigna and its dialects belong to the Southern subdivision of the Ethiopian Semitic languages within the Afroasiatic family.

All the Gurage subgroups (Northern, Western, and Eastern Gurage) belong to South Ethiopic. East Gurage is related to Harari and Gafat, while Northern and Western Gurage are related to each other.

All Guragigna languages and dialects are written with the Ge'ez script. The Gurage subset of this script has 44 independent glyphs.

Languages

In the following listing, the distinction between languages and dialects follows Ethnologue.

In the Northern group

• Kistane (Soddo)
  • Dialects: Soddo, Dobi (Gogot)

In the Eastern group

• Silte (Silte, formerly)
• Wolane (Welene)
• Zay (Zway)

In the Western group

• Sebat Bet Gurage
  • Dialects: Chaha, Ezha, Gumer, Geta, Muher, Mesqan, Inor

Sebat Bet (or Sebat Beit), in particular, is best understood as a grouping in itself; the term means literally "Seven Houses," and refers to seven specific Western Gurage groups and varieties. The position of Mesqan is still contested, as some linguists consider it part of the Western variety while others put it closer with Soddo

References

На других языках

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- [en] Gurage languages

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[fr] Langues gouragué

Les langues gouragué sont un groupe de langues afro-asiatiques, formant un continuum linguistique et parlées par les Gouragués.

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