Muher language

Muher
Region	Ethiopia
Native speakers	unknown (undated figure of 90,000)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Semitic South Semitic Ethiopian Semitic West Gurage Muher
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Linguist list	sgw-muh
Glottolog	None

Muher is an Ethiopian Semitic language belonging to the Gurage group. It is spoken in the mountains north of Cheha and Ezhana Wolene in Ethiopia.

References

• Cohen, Marcel (1936). Etudes d’éthiopien méridional. Paris: Guenther.
• Hetzron, Robert (1977). The Gunnan-Gurage languages. Napoli : Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
• Leslau, Wolf (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. (ISBN 3-447-02041-5)
• Leslau, Wolf (1981). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background, Part IV : Muher. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner. (ISBN 3-515-03657-1)
• Meyer, Ronny (2005). "The morpheme yä- in Muher", in: Lissan - Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 19/1, pp. 40-63.
• Polotsky, Hans Jakob (1939). "L labialisé en gouragué mouher", in: GLECS 3, pp. 66-68 [=Collected Papers by H. J. Polotsky (Jerusalem: Magnes press 1971), pp. 516-518].
• Rose, Sharon (1996). "Allomorphy and Morphological Categories in Muher", in: G. Hudson (ed.), Essays in Gurage Language and Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 205-227.
• Rose, Sharon (2000). "Velar Lenition in Muher Gurage", in: Lingua Posnaniensis 42, pp. 107-116.