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Bench language

Bench (Bencnon, Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (in 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region, in southern Ethiopia, around the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira. In a 2006 dissertation, Christian Rapold described three…

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Dialects
Benc Non (Benesho) · Mer (Mieru) · She (Kaba)
ELP
Shé
Ethnicity
Bench
Glottolog
benc1235
ISO 639-3
bcq
Language family
OmoticNorthBench · NorthBench · Bench

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Bench language

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples40
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

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Bench language

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related to External links · 17
Bench language → Atlas, Bench, Benchnon, Christian, Dissertation, Dutch, Eingang1///PdfFiles/, EthiopiaWedekind, Grammar, Klaus, Language Structures, Leiden University, PDF, Rapold, Six-Tone Language, Towards, University
related to Orthography and literature · 7
Bench language → Bench, Ethiopian, Latin-based, New Testament, Previously, Retroflex, Tones
Dialects · 3
Bench language → Benc Non (Benesho), Mer (Mieru), She (Kaba)
Language family · 3
Bench language → Bench, NorthBench, OmoticNorthBench
ELP · 1
Bench language → Shé
Ethnicity · 1
Bench language → Bench
Glottolog · 1
Bench language → benc1235
ISO 639-3 · 1
Bench language → bcq
Linguasphere · 1
Bench language → 16-BBA-a
Native speakers · 1
Bench language → 348,000 Bench Non, 8,000 Mer, 490 She (2007)

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language bench tone formed languages omotic ethiopia wedekind klaus one symbols gimira benchnon phonemic people form may ipa tones -n

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Bench languageDialectsBenc Non (Benesho)1.00infobox
Bench languageDialectsMer (Mieru)1.00infobox
Bench languageDialectsShe (Kaba)1.00infobox
Bench languageELPShé1.00infobox
Bench languageEthnicityBench1.00infobox
Bench languageGlottologbenc12351.00infobox
Bench languageISO 639-3bcq1.00infobox
Bench languageLanguage familyOmoticNorthBench1.00infobox
Bench languageLanguage familyNorthBench1.00infobox
Bench languageLanguage familyBench1.00infobox
Bench languageLinguasphere16-BBA-a1.00infobox
Bench languageNative speakers348,000 Bench Non, 8,000 Mer, 490 She (2007)1.00infobox
Bench languageNative toEthiopia1.00infobox
Bench languagePronunciation[bentʂnon]1.00infobox
Bench languageRegionBench Maji Zone1.00infobox
Bench languageWriting systemLatin Geʽez script1.00infobox

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