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Kachama-Ganjule

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: kcx

Population	4,070 (1994 census). 1,002 monolinguals including 816 Kachama, 186 Ganjule. 2,682 Kachama, 1,390 Ganjule; 419 L2 speakers including 223 Kachama, 196 Ganjule. Ethnic population: 3,886 (1994 census) including 2,740 Kachama, 1,146 Ganjule.
Region	Kachama is on Gidicho Island in Lake Abaya; Ganjule on west shore of Lake Chamo, Shela-Mela village.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 39
Alternate names	Gatame, Gats’ame, Get’eme
Dialects	Ganjule (Ganjawle), Ganta, Kachama. Lexical similarity: 46% with Wolaytta [wal].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Omotic, North, Gonga-Gimojan, Gimojan, Ometo-Gimira, Ometo, East
Language use	Some also use Wolaytta.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 35.2%.
Comments	SOV.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

BRENZINGER, Matthias, author. 1995. "The ‘Islanders’ of Lake Abaya and Lake Chʼamo: Harro, Ganjule, Gatsʼame and Bayso."

BRENZINGER, Matthias, author. 1999. "The "islanders" of Lake Abaya and Lake Chʼamo: Harro, Ganjule, Gatsʼame and Bayso."  

BRENZINGER, Matthias; HOEFT, Lydia; SIEBERT, Ralph, authors. 1994. "Languages of the Abbaya/Chamo area - report part 1, with notes on Koorete."

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