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Sheko

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: she

Population	40,000 (2007). 13,611 monolinguals (1994 census). Ethnic population: 23,785 (1994 census).
Region	Kafa region, Shako District.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 72
Alternate names	Shak, Shako, Shekka, Shekko, Tschako
Dialects	Distinct from Shabo [sbf].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Omotic, North, Dizoid
Language use	4,920 L2 speakers. Home, religion, community. Some also use Amharic [amh] or Bench [bcq].
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 16%.
Comments	SOV; postpositions; genitives, articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads; question word initial; 1 prefix, 5 suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects; affixes indicate case of noun phrases; verb affixes mark person, number, gender of subject; passives, causatives, comparatives; CV, CVC, CVV, CV:C, CVCC; tonal, 3 tones. Agriculturalists. Traditional religion, Christian.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

HELLENTHAL, Anne-Christie, author. 2010. A Brief Grammar of the Sheko Language.

SIEBERT, Kati; SIEBERT, Ralph; YILMA, Aklilu, authors. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey of the Omotic languages Sheko and Yem."  

Vernacular Publications

Kaari s'oku nooguqa kobtəgnbaab maxsafi; Sheko transition primer. 2009.

S'oku noogu maxsafi dadu iknsabkn. 2009.

S'oku noogu naxsafi dadu kotnsabkn. 2009.

S'oku saayka há bazhaka maxsafi. 2009.