Girirra language

Girirra
Girirra
Af Girirra
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Af-Dheer Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia
Ethnicity	Girirra, Somali
Native speakers	50,000 (2007)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Cushitic Lowland East Macro-Somali Girirra; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gii
Glottolog	giri1245

Girirra also called Gariire is a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It has extensive borrowing from Somali.^[2] Although not mutually intelligible with Somali, it is estimated that around 70% of the Garirra language is made up of Somali loan words. There has not been many studies on the language itself and is often grouped into a small umbrella of the Macro-Somali language family including relatives like: Rendille, Boni, Bayso, and the two dialects of Somali, being Af-Maay, and Af-Maxaa (Standard Somali).^[3]

^ Girirra at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ SILESR2002 061
^ Blench, Roger (2006). "The Afro-Asiatic Languages Classification and Reference List" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[e25-1] Girirra at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)

[2] SILESR2002 061

[3] Blench, Roger (2006). "The Afro-Asiatic Languages Classification and Reference List" (PDF). {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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