South of Lake Chamo in the bend of the Sagan River
Native speakers
240,000 (2007)[1][2]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Cushitic
Lowland East
Oromoid
Konsoid
Konso
Dialects
Duuro
Fasha
Karatti
Kholme
Writing system
Ethiopic script
Language codes
ISO 639-3
kxc
Glottolog
kons1243
Konso (Komso, Khonso, also Af Kareti, Afa Karatti, Conso, Gato, Karate, Kareti) is a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia. Native speakers of Konso number about 200,000 (SIL 2005). Konso is closely related to Dirasha (also known as Gidole), and serves as a "trade language"—or lingua franca—beyond the area of the Konso people. Blench (2006) considers purported dialects Gato and Turo to be separate languages.[3]
The Grammar of Konso was first described by Hellenthal (2004), and later, in more detail, by Ongaye (2013). The New Testament was published in the Konso language in 2002.
^Ethiopia 2007 Census
^Konso at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Blench, 2006. The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List (ms)
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