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Bench (Bencnon, Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira[2]) 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. In a 2006 dissertation, Christian Rapold described three varieties of Bench (Benchnon, Shenon, and Mernon) as "...mutually intelligible...varieties of one and the same language".[2] Bench is the ancestral language of the Bench people.[3]
In unusual variance from most of the other languages in Africa, Bench has retroflex consonant phonemes.[4] The language is also noteworthy in that it has six phonemic tones, one of only a handful of languages in the world that have this many.[5] Bench has a whistled form used primarily by male speakers, which permits communication over greater distances than spoken Bench. The whistle can be created using the lips or made from a hollow created with both hands. Additionally, this form of the language may be communicated via the 5-stringed krar.[6]
^Bench at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ abRapold 2006
^Giday, Mirutse; Asfaw, Zemede; Woldu, Zerihun; Teklehaymanot, Tilahun (2009-11-13). "Medicinal plant knowledge of the Bench ethnic group of Ethiopia: an ethnobotanical investigation". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 5 (1): 34. doi:10.1186/1746-4269-5-34. ISSN 1746-4269. PMC 2780996. PMID 19912633.
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