Kistane
Facts
- Language: Kistane
- Alternate names: North Gurage, Soddo, Soddo Gurage
- Language code: gru
- Language family: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, West Semitic, Ethiosemitic, South Ethiopic, Outer South Ethiopic, N-Group
- Number of speakers: 255000
- Script: Ethiopic script.
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Introduction
Kistane is a Gurage language spoken by a quarter million people in southeastern Ethiopia. It is an Ethiopian Semitic language of the Northern Gurage subfamily. Its native speakers, the Soddo Gurage people (Kistane), live predominantly in the Soddo district of the Gurage Zone.
The Kistane Verb
| Main affirmative past | qättäl-o |
|---|---|
| Main negative past | al-qätälä |
| Relative affirmative past | yä-qättälä |
| Relative negative past | y-al-qätälä |
| Main affirmative non-past | yəqätl-u |
| Main negative non-past | t-iqätl |
| Relative affirmative non-past | yəqätl |
| Relative negative non-past | a-yqätl |