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Dime

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: dim

Population	6,500 (1994 census). 4,785 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 6,197 (1994 census).
Region	Kafa region, north of Omo River, just before it turns south.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 23
Alternate names	Dima
Dialects	Lexical similarity: 47% with Hamer-Banna [amf].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Omotic, South
Language use	529 L2 speakers. Not bilingual in neighboring languages, except possibly Aari [aiw].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 9.9%.
Comments	Population has diminished because of disease and war. SOV.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

SIEBERT, Ralph, author. 1995. "A survey of the Dime language."

SIEBERT, Ralph, author. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Dime language of Ethiopia."  

SIEBERT, Ralph; YILMA, Aklilu, authors. 1995. "Survey of Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi, part 1."

SIEBERT, Ralph; YILMA, Aklilu, authors. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia part 1."