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appears in various forms. Which form is used then depends on the gender of the referent of the noun phrase, and the syntactic role or case of the noun phrase. When a noun phrase without a noun is formed with an
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of the noun phrase is, that it is unnecessary for the speaker to mention it. Sidaama has two types of noun phrases without nouns. One type is made up only of an
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Kawachi, Kazuhiro (2007) "A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia," Doctoral dissertation. State University of New York at Buffalo.
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YRI, KJELL MAGNE. School Grammars with Everyday Vocabulary: Suggestion for a Culture Specific Approach, with Sidaamu Afoo as an example. in
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NIGUSSIE MESHESHA MITIKE and KJELL MAGNE YRI. Sociopolitical Discourse and Communication in Sidaama Folk Media. in
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Anbessa Teferra. 2000. "A grammar of Sidaama," Doctoral dissertation. Jerusalem, Israel: The Hebrew University.
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Kjell Magne Yri, & Steve Pepper. (2019). dictionaria/sidaama: Sidaama Dictionary (Version v1.0) . Zenodo.
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noun phrase or relative clause to form a noun phrase without a noun. This is shown in the examples below:
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Abebe Gebre-Tsadik (1982) "Derived nominals in Sidamo," B.A. thesis, Addis Ababa University. Addis Ababa.
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has also been used in the past to refer to most Highland East Cushitic languages, earlier even to some
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ANBESSA TEFERRA. Women’s Language of Avoidance and Some Other Sidaama Endangered Cultural Practices.
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Anbessa Teferra (1984) "Sidamo verb morphology," B.A. thesis, Addis Ababa University. Addis Ababa.
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speakers is 1%-5%, while for L2 speakers it is 20%. In terms of its writing, Sidaama used an
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Abebe Gebre-Tsadik. 1985. "An overview of the morphological structure of Sidamo verbs,"
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The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji
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FEKEDE MENUTA GEWTA. The sociolinguistics and pragmatics of greetings in Sidama.
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The other type of noun phrase without a noun is formed with a noun-phrase
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Gemination is also present for most consonants (e.g. /tː, kː, pʼː/).
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up until 1993, from which point forward it has used a Latin script.
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Other consonant sounds /p/ and /v/ are only heard from loanwords.
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Kramer, Ruth, and Anbessa Teferra. "Gender switch in Sidaama."
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A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo): a Cushitic language of Ethiopia
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Afro-Asiatic language spoken by Sidama people in Ethiopia
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Grover Hudson at the Michigan State University website
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It is spoken in parts of southern 1437: 1336:British and Foreign Bible Society (1933) 1172:Bender, Marvin L. and Robert L. Cooper. 1094: 1055: 1036: 957: 856: 841: 807: 792: 216:, particularly in the densely populated 1262:Grammatica Practica della Lingua Sidamo 1185: 1174:"Mutual Intelligibility Within Sidamo." 1071: 1067: 1059: 1025: 988: 973: 969: 837: 788: 2505: 2025: 1393:Bibliography of Highland East Cushitic 1999: 1411: 1330: 1130: 1128: 1126: 1124: 1110:‘I (MASC) repaired that boy’s (FEM).’ 1051: 1040: 961: 1086: 996: 864: 815: 1103:1SG.NOM that.M.GEN child-GEN.M.MOD= 220:(SNRS). Sidaamu Afoo is the ethnic 13: 1121: 1100:ani ku’uí beett-í=ta seekk-o-mm-o. 14: 2539: 1386: 1307:Highland East Cushitic Dictionary 827:‘The smart one (masculine) came.’ 633: 626: 619: 576: 532: 525: 518: 499: 490: 483: 477: 470: 450: 434: 427: 420: 413: 406: 390: 384: 377: 371: 364: 358: 351: 1366:Journal of Languages and Culture 1359:Journal of Afroasiatic Languages 1264:. Awasa (Mimeographed: 127 pp.). 1245:La Lingua e la Storia del Sidamo 1145: 232:speakers. The literacy rate for 1352:Sociolinguistics and pragmatics 1343:Ethiopian Bible Society (1984) 1285: 1082: 992: 860: 811: 754: 1403:PanAfrican L10n page on Sidamo 1194: 1179: 1166: 1153: 244:Terminology and classification 218:Sidama National Regional State 1: 2523:Subject–object–verb languages 1277:Moreno, Martino Mario (1940) 1114: 1009:.F.NOM disappear-3SG.F-PERF.3 876:‘The three (masculine) came.’ 873:three-NOM.M come-3SG.M-PERF.3 824:smart-NOM.M come-3SG.M-PERF.3 294: 289: 28: 7: 1338:St. Mark’s Gospel in Sidamo 1211: 10: 2544: 1271:12, no. 2 (2020): 286-327. 1186:Kawachi, Kazuhiro (2007). 1107:.F.ACC repair-PERF.1-1SG-M 749: 2487: 2471: 2424: 2382: 2352: 2319: 2310: 2271: 2194: 2185: 2176: 2128: 2080: 2033: 1977: 1956: 1849: 1691: 1568: 1490: 1481: 1445: 1300:Sidamo-English dictionary 1298:Gasparini, Armido (1983) 1260:Gasparini, Armido (1978) 941:attaches to the end of a 677: 608: 563: 507: 464: 335: 301: 171: 155: 137: 132: 116: 77: 67: 55: 45: 35: 26: 21: 1985:Ethiopian sign languages 1302:. Bologna, Italy: E.M.I. 1190:. University of Buffalo. 1012:‘His (FEM) disappeared.’ 2513:East Cushitic languages 1293:Sidaamu Afii Dikshinere 73:4.9 million (2022) 1325:10.5281/zenodo.3338363 1305:Hudson, Grover (1989) 1235:Sidaama (Sidaamu Afoo) 202:Highland East Cushitic 2518:Languages of Ethiopia 1439:Languages of Ethiopia 1380:Multilingual Ethiopia 1373:Multilingual Ethiopia 198:Afro-Asiatic language 759:In Sidaama, not all 1281:. 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Index

Ethiopia
Sidama region
Sidama
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Cushitic
Highland East
Writing system
Latin
ISO 639-2
sid
ISO 639-3
sid
Glottolog
sida1246
Afro-Asiatic language
Highland East Cushitic
Cushitic
Ethiopia
Sidama people
Sidama National Regional State
autonym
Amharic
L2
L1
Ethiopic script
Omotic languages
Gedeo language
Ethnologue
Alaba-K'abeena

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