Guragigna, or Gurage, is the usual name for a cluster of Ethiopian Semitic varieties spoken by the Gurage people in the Gurage Zone of central Ethiopia, south-west of Addis Ababa. It is not a single uniform language: linguists divide Gurage speech into several groupings, with Sebat Bet and Soddo among the recognised varieties, and some are not mutually intelligible with the others. Chaha is the best-studied form. Estimates for the combined Gurage varieties generally run to a few million speakers. Like Amharic and Tigrinya they belong to the Semitic branch of the Afroasiatic family and can be written in the Ethiopic script, though Amharic dominates schooling and official life. Many Gurage speakers are bilingual in Amharic, particularly in towns.
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