Dime is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the northern part of the Selamago district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia, around Mount Smith. Dime divides into at least two dialects, which include Us'a and Gerfa. It has six case suffixes, in addition to an unmarked nominative. It is overwhelmingly suffixing, but uses prefixes for demonstratives. Phonologically, it is noteworthy for having velar and uvular fricative phonemes.

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  • Dime is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the northern part of the Selamago district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia, around Mount Smith. Dime divides into at least two dialects, which include Us'a and Gerfa. It has six case suffixes, in addition to an unmarked nominative. It is overwhelmingly suffixing, but uses prefixes for demonstratives. Phonologically, it is noteworthy for having velar and uvular fricative phonemes. The basic word order is SOV (Subject Object Verb), as in other Omotic languages, indeed as in all the languages of the core of the Ethiopian Language Area. The language, as well as the Dime people themselves, reportedly decreased in numbers over the 20th century due to predation from their neighbors the Bodi, and both are in danger of extinction. Further, because the Dime language still lacks a writing system and there are no local schools to promote the use of the language, it is even more threatened.
  • Dime (auch Dima, Eigenbezeichnung dim-aaf, dim-ko-aaf) ist eine omotische Sprache, die im Südwesten Äthiopiens in der Kaffa-Region nördlich des Flusses Omo gesprochen wird. Es wird dem Südomotischen zugerechnet. Das Dime hat nur wenige Tausend Sprecher; 1998 wurden bei einer Volkszählung 6.501 erfasst. Es besitzt drei Dialekte, die untereinander verständlich sind.
  • Le dime (autonyme, dimaaf, ou décliné au génitif, dimkoaf, la bouche des Dime) est une langue afro-asiatique de la branche des langues couchitiques parlée en Éthiopie, dans la zone de l'Omo du Sud, par les Dime dont la population s'élevait en 1994 à 6 197 personnes.
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  • Dime is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in the northern part of the Selamago district in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region of Ethiopia, around Mount Smith. Dime divides into at least two dialects, which include Us'a and Gerfa. It has six case suffixes, in addition to an unmarked nominative. It is overwhelmingly suffixing, but uses prefixes for demonstratives. Phonologically, it is noteworthy for having velar and uvular fricative phonemes.
  • Dime (auch Dima, Eigenbezeichnung dim-aaf, dim-ko-aaf) ist eine omotische Sprache, die im Südwesten Äthiopiens in der Kaffa-Region nördlich des Flusses Omo gesprochen wird. Es wird dem Südomotischen zugerechnet. Das Dime hat nur wenige Tausend Sprecher; 1998 wurden bei einer Volkszählung 6.501 erfasst. Es besitzt drei Dialekte, die untereinander verständlich sind.
  • Le dime (autonyme, dimaaf, ou décliné au génitif, dimkoaf, la bouche des Dime) est une langue afro-asiatique de la branche des langues couchitiques parlée en Éthiopie, dans la zone de l'Omo du Sud, par les Dime dont la population s'élevait en 1994 à 6 197 personnes.
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