Concept information
Preferred term
ktbKambaata
Type
-
Language
Definition
- Kambaata is a Highland East Cushitic language, part of the larger Afro-Asiatic family and spoken by the Kambaata. Dialects are Donga, Kambaata and Tambaro. It is one of the official languages of Ethiopia. The language has a large number of verbal affixes. When these are affixed to verbal roots, there are a large amount of morphophonemic changes. The language has SOV order (subject–object–verb). The phonemes of Kambaata include five vowels (which are distinctively long or short), a set of ejectives, a retroflexed implosive, and glottal stop.
Entry terms
- Kambaata language
ISO 639-3 code
- ktb
Notation
- ktb
In other languages
-
Kambaata
German
URI
http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/ktb
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