Afro-Asiatic · ISO 639-3 sgw
Sebat Bet Gurage Language ሰባት ቤት ጉራጌ
Sebat Bet Gurage is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 1.5 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Ethiopic script.
Where Sebat Bet Gurage is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Sebat Bet Gurage
Language family
- Afro-Asiatic
- Semitic
- West Semitic
- Ethiosemitic
- South Ethiopic
- Outer South Ethiopic
- TT-Group
- Sebat Bet Gurage
Writing system
Ethiopic script
Related languages
About the Sebat Bet Gurage language
Sebat Bet Gurage (ሰባት ቤት ጉራጌ) is spoken by about 1.5 million people, which makes it the 385th most spoken language in the world — just behind Eastern Yiddish (1.5 million) and ahead of Gujari (1.5 million). It belongs to the Afro-Asiatic language family and, more precisely, to the TT-Group group within the West Semitic branch.
Where is Sebat Bet Gurage spoken?
Sebat Bet Gurage is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Ethiopia (440,000).
Sebat Bet Gurage is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Sebat Bet Gurage is written in the Ethiopic script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Amharic, Tigrinya, Tigre, Arabic, Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sgw.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.