Family / Group : Afro-Asiatic, Cushitic, Highland East
Area : Ethiopia (southwest Gurage, Kambaata, Hadiyya Regions)
Type : agglutinative-fusional; accusative marking
Inflectional language : Yes
Language with gender : F, M, NEU
Sources of lexicon : Homolexical
Language with sortal classifiers : No
Syntactics for numerals : NUM N
Specific traits : SOV
Numeration base : Decimal
Comments : About 890,000 native speakers