Kambata is a Highland East Cushitic language, part of the larger Afro-Asiatic family and spoken by the Kambaata. Dialects are Qebena, Tambaro, and Timbaro. It is one of the official languages of Ethiopia. The language has a large number of verbal affixes. When these are affixed to verbal roots, there are a large amount of morphophonemic changes. The language has SOV order (Subject-Object-Verb).

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  • Kambata is a Highland East Cushitic language, part of the larger Afro-Asiatic family and spoken by the Kambaata. Dialects are Qebena, Tambaro, and Timbaro. It is one of the official languages of Ethiopia. The language has a large number of verbal affixes. When these are affixed to verbal roots, there are a large amount of morphophonemic changes. The language has SOV order (Subject-Object-Verb). The phonemes of Kambaata include five vowels (which are distinctively long or short), a set of ejectives, a retroflexed implosive, and glottal stop. The New Testament and some parts of the Old Testament have been translated into the Kambaata language. At first, they were published in the Ethiopian syllabary (New Testament in 1992), but later on, they were republished in Latin letters, in conformity with new policies and practices.
  • Kambaata ist eine hochlandostkuschitische afro-asiatische Sprache. Weitere Bezeichnungen sind Kambatta, Kambata, Kembata, Kemata, Kambara sowie Donga. Im Kambaata gibt es eine große Zahl von Verbaffixen; sowohl bei den Substantiven als auch den Verben gibt es Kambaata großen Flexionenreichtum. Kasus, Numerus und Genus werden bei Substantiven und Adjektiven (Zahlwörter, Demonstrativpronomen) ausgedrückt. Die Satzstellung ist Subjekt-Objekt-Verb.
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  • Afro-Asiatic
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  • Kambaata
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  • southwest Gurage, Kambaata, Hadiyya Regions
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  • Kambata is a Highland East Cushitic language, part of the larger Afro-Asiatic family and spoken by the Kambaata. Dialects are Qebena, Tambaro, and Timbaro. It is one of the official languages of Ethiopia. The language has a large number of verbal affixes. When these are affixed to verbal roots, there are a large amount of morphophonemic changes. The language has SOV order (Subject-Object-Verb).
  • Kambaata ist eine hochlandostkuschitische afro-asiatische Sprache. Weitere Bezeichnungen sind Kambatta, Kambata, Kembata, Kemata, Kambara sowie Donga. Im Kambaata gibt es eine große Zahl von Verbaffixen; sowohl bei den Substantiven als auch den Verben gibt es Kambaata großen Flexionenreichtum. Kasus, Numerus und Genus werden bei Substantiven und Adjektiven (Zahlwörter, Demonstrativpronomen) ausgedrückt. Die Satzstellung ist Subjekt-Objekt-Verb.
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  • Kambaata language
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  • Kambaata
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