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- Bench_language abstract "Bench (Bencnon, Shenon or Mernon, formerly called Gimira ) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (in 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, in southern Ethiopia, around the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira. It has three varieties: Benchnon, Shenon, and Mernon, which Blench (2006) considers to be distinct languages but which Rapold (2006) states are "...mutually intelligible...varieties of one and the same language".In unusual variance from most of the other languages in Africa, Bench has retroflex consonant phonemes. The language is also noteworthy in that it has six phonemic tones, one of only a handful of languages in the world that have this many. Bench has a whistled form used primarily by male speakers, which permits communication over greater distances than spoken Bench. The whistle can be created using the lips or made from a hollow created with both hands. Additionally, this form of the language may be communicated via the 5-stringed krar.".
- Bench_language iso6393Code "bcq".
- Bench_language languageFamily North_Omotic_languages.
- Bench_language languageFamily Omotic_languages.
- Bench_language spokenIn Bench_Maji_Zone.
- Bench_language spokenIn Ethiopia.
- Bench_language spokenIn Southern_Nations,_Nationalities,_and_Peoples_Region.
- Bench_language wikiPageExternalLink wals_code_gim.
- Bench_language wikiPageExternalLink www.bench-web.com.
- Bench_language wikiPageExternalLink 1983_ASixToneLanguage.pdf.
- Bench_language wikiPageExternalLink 1985_Thoughts_when_Drawing_a_Map_of_Tone_Languages.pdf.
- Bench_language wikiPageExternalLink 1985_WhyBenchHasFiveLevelTonesToday.pdf.
- Bench_language wikiPageID "898981".
- Bench_language wikiPageLength "14326".
- Bench_language wikiPageOutDegree "61".
- Bench_language wikiPageRevisionID "671450972".
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Ablative_case.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Affricate.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Affricate_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Approximant_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Bench_Maji_Zone.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Bilabial_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Cardinal_number.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:Languages_of_Ethiopia.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Category:North_Omotic_languages.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Continuant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Coronal_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Demonstrative.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Determiner.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Determiner_(linguistics).
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Ejective.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Ejective_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Ethiopia.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Fricative.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Fricative_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Future_tense.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Geez_script.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Glottal_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Krar.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Locative.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Locative_case.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Mizan_Teferi.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Nasal_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Nasal_stop.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink New_Testament.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink North_Omotic_languages.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Object_(grammar).
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Omotic_languages.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Ordinal_number.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Palatalization_(phonetics).
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Palato-alveolar_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Palatoalveolar_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Phonemic_tone.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Plosive.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Plosive_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Plural.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Reflexive_pronoun.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Retroflex_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Rhotic_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Richard_J._Hayward.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Shewa_Gimira.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Southern_Nations,_Nationalities,_and_Peoples_Region.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Stative.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Stative_verb.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Stop_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Subject_(grammar).
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Tone_(linguistics).
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Velar_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Voice_(phonetics).
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Voiced_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Voiceless_consonant.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Voicelessness.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Vowel.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink Whistled_language.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink World_Atlas_of_Language_Structures.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLink File:Bench_New_Testament,_ISBN_9966-40-063-X.jpg.
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bench language ".
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bench language".
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Bench".
- Bench_language wikiPageWikiLinkText "Gimira".
- Bench_language date "2007".
- Bench_language dia "Benc Non".
- Bench_language dia "Mer".
- Bench_language dia "She".
- Bench_language fam North_Omotic_languages.
- Bench_language fam Omotic_languages.
- Bench_language familycolor "Afro-Asiatic".
- Bench_language glotto "benc1235".
- Bench_language glottorefname "Bench".
- Bench_language hasPhotoCollection Bench_language.
- Bench_language iso "bcq".
- Bench_language lingua "16".
- Bench_language name "Bench".
- Bench_language notice "IPA".
- Bench_language ref "e18".
- Bench_language region Bench_Maji_Zone.
- Bench_language region Southern_Nations,_Nationalities,_and_Peoples_Region.
- Bench_language speakers "Bench Non, 8,000 Mer, 490 She".
- Bench_language states Ethiopia.
- Bench_language wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Clarify.