Mursi language

Mursi (also Dama, Merdu, Meritu, Murzi, Murzu) is a Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic language spoken by the Mursi people, in the central Omo region of southwest Ethiopia. It is similar to Suri, spoken in most of the immediately surrounding area.

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Bibliography
Bender, M. Lionel and David Turton. 1976. "Mursi". The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. East Lansing: African Studies Center, Michigan State University. pp. 533–561.
D. Turton, M. Yigezu and O. Olibui. 2008. Mursi-English-Amharic Dictionary. Addis Ababa: Culture and Arts Society of Ethiopia.
Yigezu, Moges and David Turton. 2005. Latin based Mursi Orthography. ELRC Working Papers, Ethiopian Languages Research Center, Addis Ababa University, 1:2, pp. 242-57 (2005).

External links
Mursi Online, University of Oxford
Mursi basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
 World Atlas of Language Structures information on Mursi

Category:Languages of Ethiopia
Category:Surmic languages