Suri
[aka Surma, Shuri, Churi]Classification: Surmic
·vulnerable
Language metadata
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Surma, Shuri, Churi, Dhuri, Shuro, Eastern Suri, Tirmaga |
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Surmic, Southeast Surmic |
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ISO 639-3 |
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suq |
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Language information by source
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Information from: “Plant use among the Suri people of southern Ethiopia: a system of knowledge in danger?” (199-206) . Abbink, Jon (2002)
Information from: “Plant use among the Suri people of southern Ethiopia: a system of knowledge in danger?” (199-206) . Abbink, Jon (2002)
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
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Vulnerable
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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20,600
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"19,600 in Ethiopia (1994 census). 18,640 monolinguals. Ethnic population: 19,632 (1994 census)."
- PLACES
- Sudan; Ethiopia;
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
"Ethiopia: Southwest Kafa region toward Sudan border; west of Mizan Teferi." "Sudan: South, Boma Plateau near Ethiopia border."
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
Information from: “-ni as a marker of discourse resolution in Tirmaga” . Bryant, Michael Grayson (2007) , Reh, Mechthild and Payne, Doris L. · Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
- PLACES
- Ethiopia
- ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
"The Tirmaga people live in southwestern Ethiopia... They are agro-pastoralists who live primarily to the west of the Kibbish River and in the southern part of the Tulge valley located between the towns of Jeba and Tum."