Shekkacho

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Shekkacho is an Afroasiatic Omotic language spoken by the Shekkacho people in southwestern Ethiopia.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Shekkacho canonical 4
Shekka 2
Shakacho Shekka 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Afroasiatic language
Omotic language
language
country Ethiopia
ethnicGroup Shekkacho people
family Afroasiatic
hasAlternativeName Mocha
Moča
Shakacho
Shakacho language
linked to: Shekkacho language

Shekka
linked to: Shekkacho
hasGlottocode moch1259
hasGlottologName Mocha
hasLanguageStatus minority language
regional language
hasLinguisticFeature rich verbal morphology
tone language
hasLinguisticTypology SOV word order
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighborLanguage Bench
Dizi
Kafa
hasPhonologicalFeature complex consonant inventory
contrastive vowel length
hasUsageDomain home and community
local markets
hasWritingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet
isEndangeredStatus vulnerable
ISO639-3Code moy
isPartOf Mocha–Shekkacho subgroup
isRecognizedBy Ethiopian regional authorities
isRelatedTo Kafa language
Mocha–Shekkacho languages
isSpokenByPopulation tens of thousands of speakers
isSpokenInZone Sheka Zone
isUsedIn daily communication
local administration
oral tradition
languageBranch Omotic
languageFamily Afroasiatic
region Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
spokenBy Shekkacho people
spokenIn Ethiopia
spokenInRegion southwestern Ethiopia
subfamilyOf Omotic branch
usedByReligion Christianity
local traditional religions

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Shabo neighboringLanguages Shekkacho
Kafa hasNeighboringLanguage Shekkacho
Mekeyir isContactLanguageWith Shekkacho
Shekkacho hasAlternativeName Shekka
linked to: Shekkacho
Shekkacho language hasAlternativeName Shekka
linked to: Shekkacho
Shekkacho language hasAlternativeName Shakacho Shekka
linked to: Shekkacho
Tepi languageSpoken Shekkacho