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The Gurage languages (also known as Guragie or ጉራጌ) are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken by the Gurage people. The ethnic group inhabits the Gurage Zone within the larger multi-ethnic Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region in southwestern Ethiopia. ==Overview== The Gurage languages do not constitute a coherent linguistic grouping. Instead, the term is both linguistic and cultural. The Gurage people speak a number of separate languages, all belonging to the Southern subdivision of the Ethiopian Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family (which also includes Amharic). The languages are often referred to collectively as "Guraginya" by other Ethiopians (''-inya'' is the Amharic suffix for most Ethiopian Semitic languages). There are three dialectically varied Gurage subgroups: Northern, Eastern and Western. East Gurage is more closely related to Amharic than to either of the other two groups. The Gurage languages are written with the Ethiopic alphabet. The Gurage subset of Ethiopic has 44 independent glyphs. There is no general agreement on how many languages or dialects there are, in particular within the West Gurage grouping. As the Gurage people are surrounded by speakers of Cushitic languages, these languages have influenced the Gurage languages perhaps even more than they have other Ethiopian Semitic languages. For example, the East Gurage languages have a ten-vowel system characteristic of the neighboring Cushitic languages rather than the seven-vowel system common to most other Ethiopian Semitic languages, including the West Gurage languages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gurage languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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