Konso

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Konso is a Cushitic language spoken primarily by the Konso people of southwestern Ethiopia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Konso canonical 5
Konso special woreda 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Cushitic language
language
country Ethiopia
endangermentStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroupAssociated Konso people
glottologCode kons1248
glottologName Konso
hasAlternativeName Af-Konso
Konsinya
Xonso
hasDialects Fasha dialect
Karatti dialect
Kuro dialect
Mossiya dialect
Turo dialect
hasLinguisticResearch Bible translation projects
descriptive grammar studies
phonological analyses
hasMorphologicalFeature case marking on nouns
rich verbal inflection
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
ejective consonants
tonal distinctions
ISO639-3Code kxc
languageFamily Afroasiatic
Cushitic
linguisticTypology SOV word order
agglutinative morphology
neighboringLanguage Burji
Dirasha
Gedeo
Oromo
region Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
spokenBy Konso people
spokenIn Ethiopia
Southwestern Ethiopia
subclassOf Lowland East Cushitic language
usedFor folklore
local administration
oral tradition
religious practices
usedIn Konso Zone
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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