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  • Topic #1: Noun Classes
  • Topic #2: Sociolinguistics
From gender identification to assertion: on the use of -tte and -tta in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic lang From gender identification to assertion: on the use of -tte and -tta in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language

Zargulla is a member of the East-Ometo branch of the Omotic language family. It is spoken within the Bonke district in South-west Ethiopia. In the 1994 national census, about 8000 mother-tongue speakers of Zargulla are reported. Of these, 390 claim that they are ethnic Zargulla; the others consider themselves ethnic Gamo, a name also used to refer to a demographically and socially dominant group that speaks a distinct (North Ometo) language known as Gamotso ‘the language of the Gamo’. This ethnic identification led the authorities to treat the Zargulla and Gamo people as speakers of the same language. Because of this, Zargulla is dominated by Gamo and risks extinction. The two languages belong to two different subgroups of the Ometo branch of Omotic and they are not mutually intelligible. In some grammatical features such as verbal inflection and focus marking they are very different. In the present contribution we will examine one of the features that distinguishes Zargulla from Gamo and other North Ometo languages. This involves the morphological marking of emphatic assertion and focus.

Le Zargulla fait partie de la branche Est-ometo de la famille omotique. Il est parlé à l’intérieur de la region Bonke au sud-ouest de l’Ethiopie. Lors du recensement national de 1994, à peu près 8000 personnes  ont été identifiées comme ayant le Zargulla comme langue maternelle. 390 d’entre elles ont dis qu’elles étaient de l’ethnie zargulla; les autres se considèrent comme étant de l’ethnie Gamo. Or le nom Gamo fait reference demographiquement et socialement à un groupe dominant qui parle une langue distincte nord-ometo. La langue de ce groupe s’appelle Gamotso, ce qui veux dire ‘la langue des Gamos’. Cette identification ethnique a amené les autorités à traiter les Zargullas et les Gamos comme s’ils parlaient la même langue. Le résultat est que le Zargulla est dominé par le Gamotso et risque par conséquent de disparaître. Les deux langues appartiennent en réalité à deux sous-groupes différents de la branche ometo de la famille omotique et ne sont pas mutuellent intelligibles. Concernant quelques traits grammaticaux tels que l’inflection verbale et le marqueur de focus, ils sont complètement differents. Dans cet article, nous examinons l’un des traits qui distinguent le Zargulla du Gamotso et d’autres langues nord-ometos. C’est le marqueur morphologique de l’assertion emphatique et de focus.

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