Endangered Languages Project

ALSO KNOWN AS		Seze
CLASSIFICATION		Afro-Asiatic, Omotic, Mao
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sze
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Compare Sources (2)

Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1995).

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

DOMAINS OF USE

TRANSMISSION

MORE ON VITALITY

"Currently, Sezo-speaking people are shifting to the well-established Oromo language of the region. Mengistu has found that Sezo is typically only used in homes and is not being transmitted to the next generation."

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Oromo

PLACES: Ethiopia;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: "Spoken in the western borderlands of Ethiopia"

					2011	Sezo: Descriptive Grammar of a Mao Language (ELF grant abstract)					Web page					Endangered Language Fund				http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/ll_funded_projects.php	Girma Mengistu	Girma Mengistu. 2011. "Sezo: Descriptive Grammar of a Mao Language (ELF Grant Abstract)." Online: http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/ll_funded_projects.php.														Oromo							Endangered (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	12		"Currently, Sezo-speaking people are shifting to the well-established Oromo language of the region. Mengistu has found that Sezo is typically only used in homes and is not being transmitted to the next generation."	13				Ethiopia;	"Spoken in the western borderlands of Ethiopia"
			16		2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)				M. Paul Lewis		SIL International			Dallas, TX					http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub					3,000		1000-9999	Data for the number of native speakers comes from SIL (1995).												Threatened (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)

Sezo

Language metadata

Language information by source

Threatened

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

3,000

Endangered

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available

Discussion