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Suri language information


Suri
Surma
Native toEthiopia
RegionWest Omo Zone
EthnicitySuri, Tirma
Native speakers
27,000 (2007 census)[1]
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Eastern Sudanic?
    • Kir–Abbaian?
      • Surmic
        • South Surmic
          • Southeast Surmic
            • Pastoral Surmic
              • Tirma–Chai–Mursi
                • Suri
Dialects
  • Tirma
  • Chai
Writing system
Latin[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3suq
Glottologsuri1267
ELPSuri

Suri (Churi, Dhuri, Shuri, Shuro), is a Surmic language spoken in the West Omo Zone of the South West Ethiopia Peoples' Region in Ethiopia, to the South Sudan border by the Suri. The language has over 80% lexical similarity to Mursi.[3] The language is often referred to by another form of its name, Surma, after which the Surmic branch of Eastern Sudanic is named, but that form is frequently used for the three related languages spoken by the Surma people: Suri, Mursi, and Me'en.

Suri is spoken in two dialect by two nationalities, the Tirma (Tirmaga, Cirma, Dirma, Terema, Terna, Tid, Tirima, Tirmagi) and the Chai (Caci, Cai).

  1. ^ Ethiopia 2007 Census
  2. ^ Suri language at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Closed access icon
  3. ^ Suri language at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Closed access icon

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