Kwegu (also Bacha, Koegu, Kwegi, Menja, Nidi) is a Surmic language spoken in the Southwest of Ethiopia, on the west bank of the Omo River.

Kwegu
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Southwest, Omo River west bank
Ethnicity	5,100 Kwegu (2007 census)
Native speakers	(ca. 300 cited 1987-1990)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic Surmic South Southeast Kwegu
Dialects	Yidinich (Yidinit) Muguji
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xwg
Glottolog	kweg1241
ELP	Kwegu
Kwegu
Coordinates: 7.0°N 36.083°E / 7.0; 36.083

References

• Hieda, Osamu. 1998. "A sketch of Koegu grammar: Towards reconstructing Proto-Southeastern Surmic" in Gerrit Dimmendaal and Marco Last (eds.), Surmic Languages and Cultures. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp 345–373.

External links

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Kwegu
• Kwegu basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• ELAR archive of Koegu (Kwegu)

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