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{{Infobox language family
|name=Dullay
|region=[[Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region]], [[Ethiopia]]
|familycolor=Negro-Egyptian
|fam2=[[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]]
}}

The '''Dullay''' languages belong to the [[Cushitic languages|Cushitic]] subgroup of the [[Negro-Egyptian languages|Negro-Egyptian]] language family and are spoken in [[Ethiopia]].<ref>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=91954 Ethnologue entry for Dullay languages]</ref> Dullay is a [[dialect continuum]] consisting of the [[Gawwada language|Gawwada]] and [[Tsamai language|Tsamai]] languages. Blench (2006) places most of [[Bussa language|Bussa]] in the [[Konsoid languages]], and counts several Gawwada varieties as distinct languages.<ref>Roger Blench, 2006. [http://rogerblench.info/Language/Afroasiatic/General/AALIST.pdf ''The Afro-Asiatic Languages: Classification and Reference List''] (ms)</ref>

:[[Gawwada language|Gawwada]], [[Tsamai language|Tsamai]], [[Dihina language|Dihina]], [[Dobase language|Dobase]] (Lohu, Mashole), ?[[Gaba language|Gaba]], [[Gergere language|Gergere]], [[Gollango language|Gollango]], [[Gorrose language|Gorrose]], [[Harso language|Harso]]

The name Dullay is derived from the name Dullay-speaking groups use for the [[Weito River]]. Other terms that have been used for this language family in scientific literature are '''Werizoid''' (from the former administrative name of the area inhabited by Dullay speakers) and '''Qawko''' (from the word "man" in Dullay languages).

==Notes==
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==Further reading==
* Gunter Minker, Herrmann Amborn, Hans-Jürgen Sasse: ''Das Dullay: Materialien zu einer ostkuschitischen Sprachgruppe'', Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1980, ISBN 978-3-496-00105-8 (German)
* Mauro Tosco: ''Gawwada Morphology'', in: Alan S. Kaye (ed.): ''Morphologies of Asia and Africa'', 2007, ISBN 978-1-57506-109-2

==External links==

[[Category:East Cushitic languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Ethiopia]]

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