Inor language

Inor
Inor
Ennemor
Native to	Ethiopia
Native speakers	(undated figure of 280,000)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic West Semitic South Semitic Ethiopic South Ethiopic Outer South Ethiopic West Gurage Inor; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ior
Glottolog	inor1238

Inor (pronounced [inoːr]), sometimes called Ennemor, is an Afroasiatic language spoken in central Ethiopia. One of the Gurage languages, it is mainly spoken within the Gurage Zone in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, as well as by speakers of the language who have settled in Ethiopian cities, especially Addis Ababa. In addition to the morphological complexity that is common to all Semitic languages, Inor exhibits the very complex morphophonology characteristic of West Gurage languages.

Endegegn, Enner, Gyeto, and the extinct dialect Mesmes are all sometimes considered dialects of Inor.

Inor possesses nasal vowels, which are unusual for a Gurage language. Many of these may be the result of historical rhinoglottophilia.

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