Ganza language
# Ganza language

Ganza, also known as Ganzo or Koma, is an Omotic language spoken in the Al Kurumik District of the Blue Nile (state) in Sudan and in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia, specifically in the village districts of Penishuba and Yabeldigis.

It also goes by the names Ganzo, Gwami, Koma, and Koma-Ganza.

## Phonology

| | | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Nasal | Nasal | m | n | | ŋ | ʔ̃ |
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | | k | ʔ |
| Plosive | ejective | pʼ | tʼ | | kʼ | |
| Plosive | voiced | b | d | | ɡ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | | s | ʃ | | h |
| Fricative | ejective | | sʼ | | | |
| Fricative | voiced | | z | | | |
| Approximant | Approximant | | l | j | w | |
| Trill | Trill | | r | | | |

Ganza does not utilize consonant length $phonemically.^{:106}$

$Vowels^{:107}$ :

| | Front | Back |
| - | - | - |
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Open | a | a |

Although vowel length is typically contrastive in Omotic languages, Ganza does not have a clear contrast between long and short vowel phonemes. Instead, Ganza has predictable utterance-final vowel lengthening and a set of monosyllabic words with double $vowels.^{:109}$

