| Dirasha Ghidole, Diraasha, Dirayta, Gidole, Gardulla, Dhirasha |
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| Spoken in: | Ethiopia | |
| Region: | Omo Region, in the hills west of Lake Chamo, around Gidole town. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page | |
| Total speakers: | 50,328, 41,685 monolinguals (1998 census), 1,974 second-language speakers | |
| Language family: | Afro-Asiatic Cushitic East Konso-Gidole Dirasha |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | gdl | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Cushitic languages are a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken in the Horn of Africa. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Dirasha (also known as Ghidole, Diraasha, Dirayta, Gidole, Gardulla, Dhirasha) is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family. The Afro-Asiatic languages constitute a Language family with about 375 languages ( SIL estimate and more than 300 million speakers spread throughout North Africa It is spoken in Ethiopia in the Omo Region, in the hills west of Lake Chamo, around Gidole town. NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page Lake Chamo ( Chamo Hayk in Amharic) is a Lake in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region of southern Ethiopia. Gidole is a town in southern Ethiopia, and is the administrative center of the Dirashe special Woreda. Many speakers also use Oromo or Komso. The Konso language (also Komso or Conso) is an East Cushitic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia.