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Gedeo

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: drs

Population	637,000 (1994 census). 438,958 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 639,905.
Region	Central highland area, southwest of Dilla and east of Lake Abaya.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 32
Alternate names	Darasa, Darassa, Derasa, Derasanya, Deresa, Geddeo
Dialects	Lexical similarity: 60% with Sidamo [sid] (most similar), 57% with Alaba-Kabeena [alw], 54% with Kambaata [ktb], 51% with Hadiyya [hdy].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Highland
Language use	47,950 L2 speakers.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 5.2%. NT: 1986.
Writing system	Ethiopic script.
Comments	SOV; causative; middle, passive verbs. Traditional religion, Christian, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

GEBRE-TSADIK, Abebe, author. 1985. The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji.

HOEFT, Lydia; SIEBERT, Ralph, authors. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Abbaya/Chamo area of Ethiopia part 1."  

PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1992. "Towards a more adequate approach to ’focus’ phenomena (Review of ’Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies, by Klaus Wedekind)."

WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1980. "Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses."

WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1985. "Gedeo (Derasa) verb morphology and morphophonemics."

WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies.

WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1993. Texterzeugung am Beispiel kuschitisher Narrativtexte: Grundlagen und Ergebnisse.