| Girirra | |
| States: | Ethiopia |
| Region: | Af-Dheer Zone, Somali Region, Ethiopia |
| Speakers: | 50,000 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
| Fam2: | Cushitic |
| Fam3: | Lowland East |
| Fam4: | Macro-Somali |
| Iso3: | gii |
| Glotto: | giri1245 |
| Glottorefname: | Girirra |
| Nativename: | Af Girirra |
| Ethnicity: | Girirra, Somali |
Girirra also called Gariire is a Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It has extensive borrowing from Somali.[1] Although not mutually intelligible with Somali, it is estimated that around 70% of the Garirra language is made up of Somali loan words. There has not been many studies on the language itself and is often grouped into a small umbrella of the Macro-Somali language family including relatives like: Rendille, Boni, Bayso, and the two dialects of Somali, being Af-Maay, and Af-Maxaa (Standard Somali).[2]
The following are the phonemes found in Girirra:[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palato- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Trill | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /iː/ | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /uː/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /eː/ | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /oː/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /ink/, pronounced as /aː/ |