Anfillo language

Anfillo language

Infobox Language
name=Anfillo
region=Ethiopia
speakers=500 (1990 SIL)
25 monolinguals
iso2=?
iso3=myo
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam1=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Omotic
fam3=North Omotic
fam4=Gonga-Gimojan
fam5=Gonga

Anfillo (also known as Southern Mao) is a Northern Omotic language spoken in western Ethiopia by a few hundred people. The term Anfillo is used to refer both to the language and the people found in a small community in the Anfillo woreda, part of the Mirab Welega Zone. The language is on the verge of extinction as it is spoken only by adults above the age of sixty. All younger generations have shifted to Western Oromo. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

Anfillo has five vowels and about 22 consonants. Long vowels and consonants do occur and may have phonemic value. The basic word order is Subject Object Verb. Nouns follow their modifier. Verbs are inflected for tense, aspect and mood. Three tenses are marked morphologically: present, past, and future. Gender and number are expressed lexically.

Notes

References

* Goshu, Debela & Demeke, Girma Awgichew [2005] 'Some points on Anfillo' (unpublished handout, "International Conference on Endangered Ethiopian Languages", Addis Ababa 27-30 April 2005).
* Wedekind, Klaus & Wedekind, Charlotte (2002) 'Sociolinguistic Survey Report on Languages of the Asosa-Begi-Komosha area, Part II' ( [http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-055 SIL Electronic Survey Report 2002-055] ). " [contains a map] "
* Gebre Bizuneh (1994) 'The Phonology of Anfillo' (unpublished M.A. thesis, Addis Abeba University)
* Amanuel Alemayehu (2001) 'Noun Phrase in Anfillo' (unpublished B.A. thesis, Addis Abeba University)
* Yigezu, Moges & Yehualashet (1995) 'Anfillo: a sketch of grammar and lexicon', "Afrikanistisch Arbeitspapiere", 43. Cologne: University of Cologne/Institute of African Studies.
* Yigezu, Moges (1995b) 'Dying twice: the case of Anfillo languages', "Afrikanistisch Arbeitspapiere", 43. Cologne: University of Cologne/Institute of African Studies.

External links

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=myo Ethnologue report on Anfillo]


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