Sidamon.
/sɪˈdɑːməʊ/ A group of Cushitic-speaking peoples in south-western Ethiopia; a member of one of these peoples. Also, the language of these peoples. Also attributive or as adj.
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Falasha1710
Saho1790
Sidamo1830
Tigrean1842
Danakil1875
the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Cushitic > Cushitic languages
Agaw1808
Bejaa1817
Sidamo1830
Galla1848
Saho1849
Somali1850
Cushitic1854
Afar1869
Danakil1885
the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [adjective] > Cushitic
Saho1831
Afar1845
Sidamo1910
1830 S. Gobat Jrnl. 11 May in Jrnl. Abyssinia (1834) ii. 166 A month's journey to the w.s.w. of Shoa he had found a little Christian empire, who have a particular language, called Sidama, and books.
1831 S. Gobat Jrnl. 8 Dec. in Jrnl. Abyssinia (1834) iv. 305 Kidam Mariam had with him a slave..of Sidama... He said that the Sidamas are Christians.
1868 J. C. Hotten Abyssinia & its People ii. v. 200 Kaffa is a wealthy and fertile kingdom; the inhabitants are proud and handsome... They still retain a recollection and traces of the Christian faith... The Gallas, with whom they are incessantly at war, call them, in derision, ‘Sydama’, originally signifying Christian.
1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 894/1 Similar dialects are those of the Sid(d)àma tribes, south of Abyssinia.
1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 366 Mixed with Ethiopic-speakers are the Agaw dialects..; and in the south-west are the Sidama (Gudella, Kaffa, Kullo-Walamo, Bambala, etc.).
1972 Bk. of Thousand Tongues (ed. 2) 392/2 Sidamo is spoken by an estimated 100,000 people in highland areas north and east of Lake Abaya, southwestern Ethiopia.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia VI. 1013/1 Those Galla and Sidamo who retain their traditional cosmologies..are more firmly anchored in the present.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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