ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

Africa · ISO 639-3 amf · Glottocode hame1242

Hamer-Banna

Hamer-Banna broadens the comparative view of Africa: threatened status, classification in the South Omotic family, and likely script Latin.

Language family
South Omotic
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
threatened
Macroarea
Africa
Source country codes
ET · KE
Reference point
5.065, 36.518

Open research question

How do speakers of Hamer-Banna describe their linguistic boundaries, relationships to place, and priorities for documentation or revitalisation?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.