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Preferred term

dimDime  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Dime or Dima is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the northern part of the Selamago district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia, around Mount Smith. Dime divides into at least two dialects, which include Us'a and Gerfa. It has six case suffixes, in addition to an unmarked nominative. It is overwhelmingly suffixing, but uses prefixes for demonstratives. Phonologically, it is noteworthy for having velar and uvular fricative phonemes. The basic word order is SOV (subject–object–verb), as in other Omotic languages, indeed as in all the languages of the core of the Ethiopian Language Area.

Entry terms

  • Dime language

ISO 639-3 code

  • dim

In other languages

  • Idioma dima

    Aragonese

  • Dimeg

    Breton

  • Dime jezik

    Croatian

  • Dime

    French

  • Dime

    German

  • Lenga Dime

    Piedmontese

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/dim

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