Bench language
Bench (Bencnon, Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira ) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (in 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, in southern Ethiopia, around the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira. It has three varieties: Benchnon, Shenon, and Mernon, which Blench (2006) considers to be distinct languages but which Rapold (2006) states are "...mutually intelligible...varieties of one and the same language".
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Bench language
Bench (Bencnon, Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira ) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (in 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, in southern Ethiopia, around the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira. It has three varieties: Benchnon, Shenon, and Mernon, which Blench (2006) considers to be distinct languages but which Rapold (2006) states are "...mutually intelligible...varieties of one and the same language".
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Bench (Bencnon, Shenon or Mern ...... cated via the 5-stringed krar.
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Bench (Bencnon, auch Gimira, w ...... er Gegend kennt es sechs Töne.
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Bench (também chamada Gimira, ...... guas do mundo com tantos tons.
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Le gimira (ou bench, autonyme, ...... ira, par 174 000 Bench et She.
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Bench Non, 8,000 Mer, 490 She
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Bench (Bencnon, Shenon or Mern ...... of one and the same language".
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Bench (Bencnon, auch Gimira, w ...... er Gegend kennt es sechs Töne.
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Bench (também chamada Gimira, ...... guas do mundo com tantos tons.
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Le gimira (ou bench, autonyme, ...... ira, par 174 000 Bench et She.
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Bench (Sprache)
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Bench language
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Gimira
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Língua bench
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Bench
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