Hdy

Also Known As: Adiya,Adiye,Hadia,Hadya,Adea,Hadiya Description: Hadiyya (sometimes Hadiyigna or Adiya) is the Afro-Asiatic language of the Hadiya people of Ethiopia. Most speakers live within 100 miles of Addis Ababa in a town called Hosaena. Many speakers live outside of cities. The language is a Highland East Cushitic language. The Libido language, located just to the north, is very similar lexically, but has significant morphological differences. Hadiyya is interesting in that it has a set of complex consonant phonemes consisting of a glottal stop and a sonorant: /ʔr/, /ʔy/, /ʔw/, /ʔl/. The New Testament has been translated in Hadiyya, published by the Bible Society of Ethiopia in 1993. It was originally done using the traditional Ethiopic syllabary. A later printing used the Latin alphabet. The Ethnologue quotes the 1998 census saying the number of speakers is 923,958, with 595,107 monolinguals...... full article at Wikipedia Location of Hadiyya Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/hdy/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png

Overview Main Country: Ethiopia Spoken In: Countries: Ethiopia Regions: Africa ISO 639-3 Code: hdy Classification Taxonomy All Languages   Afro-Asiatic Group     Cushitic Group       East Cushitic Group         Highland Group           Hadiyya Language