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Majang

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: mpe

Population	15,300 (1998 census). 10,752 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 15,341 (1998 census).
Region	Southwest, parts of Gambela, Oromo, and Kafa administrative regions, a long, narrow belt between Bure (east of Gambela) and Guraferda south.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 52
Alternate names	Ajo, Ato Majang, Ato Majanger-Onk, Majanjiro, Masango, Masongo, Mesengo, Ojanjur, Tama
Dialects	Minor dialect variation.
Classification	Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Eastern, Surmic, North, Majang
Language use	438 L2 speakers.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 21.1%.
Writing system	Ethiopic script. Latin script.
Comments	The people are called ‘Majang’ or ‘Majangir’. VSO; postpositions; genitives, articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads; question words final; suffixes indicate case, passives; causative prefix; reciprocal verb forms; verb affixes mark person, number, subject, object; many syllable patterns; tonal. Swidden agriculturalists; beekeepers; hunters. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ARENSEN, Jonathan E.; DE JONG, Nicolaas; RANDAL, Scott; UNSETH, Peter, authors. 1997. "Interrogatives in Surmic languages and Greenberg’s universals."

JOSWIG, Andreas, author. 2011. A Brief Grammar of the Majang Language.  

UNSETH, Carole; UNSETH, Peter, authors. 1991. Analyzing ambiguity in orthographies.

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1986. Reduplication in Majang.

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1987. "A typological anomaly in some Surma languages."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1988. "Majang nominal plurals, with comparative notes."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1989. "An initial comparison and reconstruction of case suffixes in Surmic languages."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1989. "Sketch of Majang syntax."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1989. The production of a linguistic bibliography.

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1991. "Consonant sequences and morphophonemics in Majang."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1991. "Reduplication in Majang."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1994. "Verbal negation in Majang."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1998. "Notes on clan, kinship and marriage patterns among the Majangir."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 1998. "Two old causative affixes in Surmic languages."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 2007. "Maǧaŋgir ethnography."

UNSETH, Peter, author. 2007. "Maǧaŋgir language."

Vernacular Publications

Ato Majangerongk (Language of Majang). 2006.

Koshok mutken dʼoku nank. 1991.

Washiye olabʼa jemeyk. 1992.