Hadiyya language

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The Hadiyya language is a Highland East Cushitic language spoken by the Hadiya people of southern Ethiopia.

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Hadiyya language canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Highland East Cushitic language
language
country Ethiopia
hasAlternateName Hadiya Afo
Hadiyya Afoo
surface form: Hadiyya Afo
hasBasicWordOrder SOV
hasDialects Leemo dialect
Soro dialect
Soro-Leemo dialect continuum
hasEthnologueEntry Hadiyya
hasGlottologCode hadi1240
hasGlottologName Hadiyya
hasISO639-3Code hdy
hasLinguisticFeature case-marking on nouns
gender distinction
number distinction
postpositions
rich verbal morphology
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative language
hasSpeakerCommunity Hadiya Zone population
hasWritingSystem Geʽez script
surface form: Ethiopic script
isAlsoKnownAs Hadiya
Hadiyigna
Hadiyya Afoo
isCloselyRelatedTo Alaba language
Kambaata language
Libido language
isSpokenNear Alaba language area
Kambaata language area
Sidamo language area
isUsedAlongside Amharic
surface form: Amharic language

Oromo language
languageBranch Cushitic
languageFamily Afroasiatic
languageSubbranch Highland East Cushitic
region southern Ethiopia
spokenBy Hadiya people
spokenIn Ethiopia
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
subfamilyOf Afroasiatic languages
Cushitic
surface form: Cushitic languages

Highland East Cushitic
surface form: East Cushitic languages
usedFor daily communication among Hadiya people
education at primary level in some areas
local administration in Hadiya Zone

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Sidamo closelyRelatedTo Hadiyya language
Alaba language neighboringLanguages Hadiyya language