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Hadiyya

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: hdy

Population	924,000 (1994 census). 595,107 monolinguals.
Region	Gurage, Kambaata, Hadiyya region, between Omo and Billate rivers, Hosaina town area.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 34
Alternate names	Adea, Adiya, Adiye, Hadia, Hadiya, Hadya
Dialects	Leemo, Soro. Lexical similarity: 82% with Libido [liq], 56% with Kambaata [ktb], 54% with Alaba-Kabeena [alw], 53% with Sidamo [sid].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Highland
Language use	150,889 L2 speakers. Also use Amharic [amh].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 34.4%. NT: 1992.
Writing system	Ethiopic script. Latin script.
Comments	SOV; passive, reflexive, causative, middle verbs. Christian, Muslim.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Gebre-Tsadik, Abebe and others. 1985. The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji.

Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia) [part 1]."

Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia), part 2: Appendices."

Perrett, Denise L. 1993. The switch-reference phenomena in Hadiyya: a labelled deductive system perspective.

Sim, Ronald J. 1985. "The morphological structure of some main verb forms in Hadiyya."

Sim, Ronald J. 1988. "Violations of the two-consonant constraint in Hadiyya."

Sim, Ronald J. 1989. Predicate conjoining in Hadiyya: a head-driven PS grammar.

Sim, Ronald J. and E. Korhonen. 1984. "Frequency of verbs: Is our translation natural?."