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Silt’e

A language of Ethiopia

ISO 639-3: stv

Population	1,000,000 (2007).
Region	South of Addis Ababa 150km, Werabey Town.
Language map	Southwestern Ethiopia, reference number 74
Alternate names	East Gurage, Selti, Silte, Silti
Dialects	Enneqor (Inneqor), Ulbarag (Urbareg). Similar to Wolane [wle].
Classification	Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, South, Ethiopian, South, Transversal, Harari-East Gurage
Language use	Home, school, market. All ages. Positive attitude.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 15%. Literacy rate in L2: 17%. Taught in primary schools. Dictionary. Bible portions: 1981.
Writing system	Ethiopic script.
Comments	SOV; prepositions and postpositions; genitives, adjectives, numerals, relatives before noun heads; articles after noun heads; passives; causatives; CV, CVC; nontonal.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

GARDNER, Simon, author. 1994. A problem in boundary morphophonemics for computer analysis.

GARDNER, Simon; SIEBERT, Ralph, authors. 1994. "Second S. L. L. E. survey of the Zay language area."

GARDNER, Simon; SIEBERT, Ralph, authors. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Zay language area."  

GUTT, Ernst-August, author. 1980. "Intelligibility and interlingual comprehension among selected Gurage speech varieties."

GUTT, Ernst-August, author. 1983. "Studies in the phonology of Silti."

GUTT, Ernst-August, author. 1983. A multi-tiered approach to Siltʼi verb morphology.

GUTT, Ernst-August; GUTT, Eva H. M.; MOHAMMED MUSSA, Hussein, compilers. 1997. Siltʼe - Amharic - English dictionary, (with concise grammar).

GUTT, Eva H. M.; MOHAMMED MUSSA, Hussein, compilers. 1995. Yäsəltʼənä - Amarəna - ənglizəña kʼamus (əncʼər kutab) (Yäsəltʼiña - Amarəna - ənglizəña mäzgäba kʼalat (acʼər ətəm): Siltʼe - Amharic - English dictionary (shorter version)).

LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1999. Οτι recitativum in John’s Gospel: a stylistic or a pragmatic device?.  

UNSETH, Peter, author. 2003. "Surveying bi-consonantal reduplication in Semitic."

Vernacular Publications

mehimachot yesiltʼe misaleyawi anegageroch. 2002.