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Dirasha

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: gdl

Population	90,000 (2005 SIL), increasing. 80,000 monolinguals. 8,097 Mosiya and 10,100 Kusumitta. Ethnic population: 90,000.
Region	Omo region, hills west of Lake Chamo, Gidole town area.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 24
Alternate names	Dhirasha, Diraasha, Dirayta, Gardulla, Ghidole, Gidole
Dialects	Mosiya, Kusumitta. Part of a dialect subgroup with Konso [kxc] and Bussa [dox]. Lexical similarity: 55% with Konso.
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Konso-Gidole
Language use	7,000 L2 speakers. All domains. All ages. Neutral attitude. Also use Amharic [amh], Eastern Oromo [hae], Konso, or Bussa.
Comments	SOV; verb suffix morphology shows causative, reflexive, subject person, number, gender. Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BEKELE, Yegzaw; CHERU, Zewde; KUSIA SHENKERE, Dinote; TANABE, Wolde-Gebriel; WEDEKIND, Klaus, authors. 1994. "Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore), report part 1."

KUSIA SHENKERE, Dinote; SIEBERT, Ralph, authors. 1994. "Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbare (Irbore)."

UUSITALO, Mirjami, author. 2012. A Brief Grammar of the Dirayta Language.

WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) part II."  

WEDEKIND, Klaus, editor. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada (Dullay), Diraasha (Gidole), Muusiye (Bussa) areas."  

Vernacular Publications

መጣፈ ቶሮተ ሄከ ፕነነ. 2009.

ኮልለ ክርለታነ. 2009.

Kolnet dapa huseynu qale ala patu. 2007.