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Silte language

LC control no.sh 00008820
Topical headingSilte language
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Variant(s)East Gurage language
Enneqor language
Innekʼor language
Inneqor language
Selti language
Silté language
Silti language
See alsoEthiopia--Languages
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Gurage languages
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Found inGutt, E.H.M. Silté-Amharic-English dict., 1997: p. xxiii (Silt'i; Silti)
Leslau, W. Etymological dict. of Gurage (Ethiopic), 1979: p. xi (Guarage has twelve dialects, one of which is Selṭi)
Ethnologue, Sept. 25, 2000 (Silti (Selti); dialect of, and alternative for, East Gurage; official literary language)
Asher. Encyc. lang & ling., 1994: 3:1147 (Silti is one of 15 regional languages of Ethiopia)
Bright. Intl. encyc. of ling., 1992: v. 3:417 (Selti is main variety of East Gurage group of Semitic languages, spoken in southwestern Shoa Province, Ethiopia)
Ruhlen world lang. (East Gurage)
Voegelin: p. 304 (Ethiopic: East Gurage: Inneqor=Enneqor=Innekʼor=Mesqan=Selti=Silti)
Hetzron, Robert. Ethiopian Semitic, c1972: p. 5 (Selṭi [Hetzron uses the shewa symbol for the 1st vowel]) p. 5, etc. (Selṭi, Amharic name for the native Selṭe; a South Ethiopic Semitic language belonging to the East Gurage dialect cluster)
Ethnologue, 2005 (Silt'e; language of Ethiopia; alternate names: East Gurage, Selti, Silti; dialects: Enneqor (Inneqor), Ulbarag (Urbareg), Wolane (Walane))
Not found inThes. for African languages