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Kambaata

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: ktb

Population	570,000 (1994 census). 330,108 monolinguals including 278,567 Kambaata, 51,541 Timbaro. 487,655 Kambaata, 82,803 Timbaro. Ethnic population: 621,407.
Region	Southwest Gurage, Kambaata, Hadiyya region. Durame is main town.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 42
Alternate names	Donga, Kambara, Kambata, Kambatta, Kemata, Kembata
Dialects	Tambaro, Timbaro (Timbara, Timbaaro). Lexical similarity: 95% with the Timbaro dialect, 81% with Alaba-Kabeena [alw], 62% with Sidamo [sid], 57% with Libido [liq], 56% with Hadiyya [hdy].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Highland
Language use	79,322 L2 speakers including 68,607 Kambaata, 10,715 Timbaro. Positive attitude.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 25%. Literacy rate in L2: 44%. Taught in primary schools. NT: 1992.
Writing system	Ethiopic script. Latin script.
Comments	SOV; passive, middle, causative verbs; subject suffixes distinguish person, number, gender. 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.

KORHONEN, Elsa; SAKSA, Mirja; SIM, Ronald J., authors. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia) [part 1]."

KORHONEN, Elsa; SAKSA, Mirja; SIM, Ronald J., authors. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia), part 2: Appendices."

SIM, Margaret G., author. 1985. "Kambaata verb morphophonemics."

SIM, Margaret G., author. 1988. "Palatalization and gemination in the Kambaata verb."