Hamer-Banna language
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| Hamer-Banna | ||
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Region: | South Omo Region | |
| Total speakers: | 42,838 total; 38,354 monolinguals (1998) | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Omotic South Omotic Hamer-Banna |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | amf | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Hamer or Hamer-Banna is an Omotic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It is spoken primarily in the southern part of Ethiopia by the Hamer people. Other names for this language include: Amar Amarcocche Amer Ammar Bana Banna Beshada Cocche Hamar Hamar-Koke Hamer Hammer Hammercoche Kara Kerre. [1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

