Gimojan languages
Encyclopedia
The Gimojan languages belong to the Afro-Asiatic
family and are spoken in Ethiopia
.
It is not clear if the Bench language
forms a branch of Gimojan in its own right, or if it is part of an Ometo–Gimira group.
Afro-Asiatic languages
The Afroasiatic languages , also known as Hamito-Semitic, constitute one of the world's largest language families, with about 375 living languages...
family and are spoken in Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
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It is not clear if the Bench language
Bench language
Bench is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, in southern Ethiopia, around the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira...
forms a branch of Gimojan in its own right, or if it is part of an Ometo–Gimira group.