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Sidamo

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: sid

Population	2,900,000 (2005 SIL). 2,525,000 monolinguals.
Region	South central, Sidamo zone, northeast of Lake Abaya and southeast of Lake Awasa.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 73
Alternate names	Sidaamu Afoo, Sidaminya, Sidámo ’Afó
Dialects	Lexical similarity: 64% with Alaba-Kabeena [alw], 62% with Kambaata [ktb], 53% with Hadiyya [hdy].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, East, Highland
Language use	101,340 L2 speakers.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 1%–5%. Literacy rate in L2: 20%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1990.
Writing system	Ethiopic script. Latin script.
Comments	Sidaamu Afoo is the self-name. Sidaminya is the Amharic designation for the language. SOV.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

GEBRE-TSADIK, Abebe, author. 1985. "An overview of the morphological structure of Sidamo verbs."

GEBRE-TSADIK, Abebe, author. 1985. The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji.

PAYNE, Doris L., author. 1992. "Towards a more adequate approach to ’focus’ phenomena (Review of ’Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies, by Klaus Wedekind)."

WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1980. "Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses."

WEDEKIND, Klaus, author. 1993. Texterzeugung am Beispiel kuschitisher Narrativtexte: Grundlagen und Ergebnisse.

Vernacular Publications

Fayyimmate agarooshshinna dhibbu gargarooshshi maxaafa. 2003.

Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote dhagge: roso 1-20. 2002.

Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote dhagge: roso 21-40. 2003.

Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote maxaafa 1. 2002.

Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote maxaafa 2. 2003.

Sidaamu afiinni qixxaabbinota addi addi dhagge amadino maxaafa. 2002.

Sidaamu afiinni qixxaawinoha HIV/EEDISI (AIDS) yinanni dhibbi mayimma, kulanno maxaafa. 2002.