Hadiyya language

Hadiyya language

language
name=Hadiyya
region=Ethiopia:
speakers=923,958 (1994)
familycolor=Afro-Asiatic
fam2=Cushitic
fam3=East
fam4=Highland
iso2=|iso3=hdy

Hadiya (sometimes "Hadiyigna" or "Adiya") is the Afro-Asiatic language of the Hadiya people of Ethiopia. Most speakers live within 100 miles of Addis Ababa in a town called Hosaena. Many speakers live outside of cities. [Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.]

The language is a Highland East Cushitic language. The Libido language, located just to the north, is very similar lexically, but has significant morphological differences. Hadiyya is interesting in that it has a set of complex consonant phonemes consisting of a glottal stop and a sonorant: /ʔr/, /ʔy/, /ʔw/, /ʔl/.

The New Testament has been translated in Hadiyya, published by the Bible Society of Ethiopia in 1993. It was originally done using the traditional Ethiopic syllabary. A later printing used the Latin alphabet.

The Ethnologue quotes the 1998 census saying the number of speakers is 923,958, with 595,107 monolinguals.

Notes

References

* [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hdy Ethnologue entry for Hadiyya]
* Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia) [part 1] ."‭ Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 5: 5-41.
* Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia), part 2: Appendices."‭ Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 6: 71-121.
* Leslau, Wolf. 1985. The liquid l in Hadiyya and West Gurage. Mélanges linguistiques offerts à Maxime Rodinson (Comptes rendus du groupe linguistique d’études chamito-sémitiques supplément 12), 231-238. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner.
* Perrett, Denise Lesley. 1993. The switch-reference phenomena in Hadiyya: A labelled deductive system perspective, M.A. thesis, Univ. of London.
* Perrett, Denise Lesley. 2000. The dynamics of tense construal in Hadiyya, Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. of London.
* Plazikowsky-Brauner, Herma. 1960. Die Hadiya-Sprache. Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 16.38-76.
* Plazikowsky-Brauner, Herma. 1961. Texte der Hadiya-Sprache. Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 17.83-115.
* Plazikowsky-Brauner, Herma. 1964. Wörterbuch der Hadiya-Sprache. Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 20.133-182.
* Sim, Ronald J. 1985. "The morphological structure of some main verb forms in Hadiyya."‭ In The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji , 10-43. Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, 2. Cologne: Institut für Afrikanistik.
* Sim, Ronald J. 1988. "Violations of the two-consonant constraint in Hadiyya."‭ African Languages and Cultures 1: 77-90.
* Sim, Ronald J. 1989. Predicate conjoining in Hadiyya: a head-driven PS grammar.‭ Ph.D. thesis. University of Edinburgh.
* Stinson, D. Lloyd. 1976. Hadiyya. In Language in Ethiopia, M. L. Bender et al, eds., 148-154. London: Oxford University Press.


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