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Mesmes

An extinct language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: mys

Population  Extinct.
Region  Gurage, Hadiyya, Kambatta regions.
Dialects  Related to Sebat Bet Gurage [sgw].
Classification  Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, Ethiopian, South, Outer, tt-Group
Comments  SOV.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

AHLAND, Michael Bryan, author. 2004. Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing language.

AHLAND, Michael Bryan, author. 2010. Language Death in Mesmes: A Sociolinguistic and Historical-Comparative Examination of a Disappearing Ethiopian-Semitic Language.  Available for purchase