Alternate Names: Goffa
Dialects: None known. Lexical similarity: 79%–91% with Gamo ,, 76% with Dawro ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 363,000 (2007 census), increasing. 190,000 monolinguals. L2 users: 33,400.
Language Use: Neutral attitudes. Also use Amharic [amh]. Used as L2 by Baiso [bsw].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 19%. Church-based literacy program started 2007. NT: 2011.
Typology: SOV; derived nouns formed by suffixation of verbs; passives; case suffixes; postpositions; tonal.
Writing System: Ethiopic, Latin
Nation of Origin: Ethiopia