Ganza language
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Ganza, also known as Ganzo or Koma, is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic family spoken in the Al Kurumik District of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.
It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ʔ̃ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | h | ||
| ejective | sʼ | |||||
| voiced | z | |||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |||
| Trill | r |
Ganza does not utilize consonant length phonemically.
Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowel lengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double vowels.
- Smolders, Joshua. 2015. A Wordlist of Ganza. Addis Ababa: SIL Ethiopia
Notes
External links
- 2020-09-19 at the Wayback Machine