{{Short description|Gurage language spoken in Ethiopia}} {{Infobox language |name=Sebat Bet Gurage |nativename=ሰባት ቤት ጉራጌ‎ (Səbat Bet Gurage) |pronunciation= |states=Ethiopia |region= West Gurage Zone |ethnicity=Gurage |speakers={{sigfig|2.470000|2}} million |date=2022 |ref=e27 |dia1=Chaha |dia2=Ezha |dia3=Gumer |dia4=Endegegn |dia5=Gyeto |dia6=Muher |dia7=Enemor |familycolor=Afro-Asiatic |fam2=Semitic |fam3=West Semitic |fam4=South Semitic |fam5=Ethiopic |fam6=South |fam7=Outer |fam8=West Gurage |iso3=sgw |glotto=seba1251 |glottorefname=Sebat Bet Gurage |script=Geʽez script }}

'''Sebat Bet''' ("Seven houses") is an Ethio-Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken in Ethiopia.

==Overview== {{Unreferenced section|date=February 2023}} One of the Gurage languages, Sebat Bet is divided into several dialects.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Glottolog 5.0 - Sebat Bet Gurage |url=https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/seba1251 |access-date=2024-08-17 |website=glottolog.org}}</ref> The latter are spoken in the western Gurage Region: *Chaha (Cheha) is spoken in Cheha and is the best studied of these varieties * Mesqan is spoken in Meskan *Ezha (Eza, Izha) is spoken in Ezhana Wolene *Muher is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene *Geta is spoken in Geta *Gumer (Gwemarra, Gʷəmarə), spoken in Gumer *Inor (Ennemor), spoken in Enemorina Eaner :* Endegegn and the extinct Mesmes language are sometimes considered subdialects of Inor.

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==Further reading== * Leslau, Wolf. 1997. "Chaha (Gurage) Phonology" in Kaye, Alan S. (ed.): Phonologies of Asia and Africa 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp.&nbsp;373–397. *Rose, Sharon. 2007. "Chaha (Gurage) Morphology" in Kaye, Alan D. (ed.): Morphologies of Africa and Asia 1. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns. pp.&nbsp;403–427.

==External links== * World Atlas of Language Structures information on [http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_chh Chaha]

{{Languages of Ethiopia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sebat Bet Gurage Language}} Category:Languages of Ethiopia Category:Outer Ethiopian Semitic languages Category:South Semitic languages

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