"Borna language" redirects here. For the retired language description Borna (Democratic Republic of the Congo), see Spurious languages.
Shinasha
Borna
Region
Ethiopia
Ethnicity
61,000 Bora (2007 census)[1]
Native speakers
36,000 (2007 census)[2][3]
Language family
Afro-Asiatic
Omotic
North
Gonga
Shinasha
Dialects
Amuru
Wenbera
Gamila
Guba
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
bwo
Glottolog
boro1277
ELP
Boró
Shinasha, also known as Boro (Borna, Bworo) is a North Omotic language spoken in western Ethiopia by the Shinasha people. Its speakers live in scattered areas north of the Abay River: in the Dangur, Bullen, Dibate and Wenbera districts, which are parts of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region.[4]
^Borna at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Borna at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^Ethiopia 2007 Census
^Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. "Boro, a language of Ethiopia", Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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