Nayi language
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Nayi (nke a makwaara dị ka "Nao") bụ asụsụ Omotic nke ezinụlọ asụsụ Afro-Asia nke a na-asụ na ọdịda anyanwụ Etiopia. Ọtụtụ n’ime ndị na-asụ asụsụ ahụ bi n’ebe abụọ dị iche iche. Otu kachasị na-ebi na mpaghara Decha nke mpaghara Keffa. Obodo kacha nso na mpaghara ha bụ Bonga. Ụfọdụ n'ime obodo Dulkuma dị na mpaghara Shoa Bench, ụfọdụ ndị nọ na Sheko were kwaga ebe ahụ n'afọ 1976-1977 n'ihi esemokwu dị n'etiti ndị isi obodo na ọchịchị ndị agha (Aklilu 2002:4). Na Decha, ndị na-eto eto anaghịzi asụ asụsụ ahụ.

Asụsụ a ama ama maka consonants retroflex ya (Aklilu Yilma 1988), njiri mara mma kesara Dizi, Sheko na nso (mana ọnweghị njikọ chiri anya) Bench. Asụsụ ahụ nwere ụdaume ise nwere ike ịdị ogologo ma ọ bụ mkpụmkpụ. Ajuju nke ọnọdụ nke obere ụdaume etiti etiti ka edozibeghị. Enwere ụda ụda olu atọ yana syllabic consonants imi. Enwere nkwụsị na mmekpa ahụ, ma ọ dịghị ihe ọ bụla (Aklilu 2002: 6,7).

Nayi, yana asụsụ Dizi na Sheko, bụ akụkụ nke ụyọkọ asụsụ dị iche iche a na-akpọ "Maji" ma ọ bụ "Dizoid".

Ihe edeturu 

 Aklilu Yilma, 1990.  Usoro ụdaume abụọ na Nayi: palatalization na labialization. Na Tadesse Beyene, Richard Pankhurst, Ahmed Zekaria, eds., Proceedings of the Firstr National Conference of Ethiopian Studies.  Addis Ababa: Mahadum Addis Ababa.
 Aklilu Yilma, 1994. "Ihe osise nke ụtọ asụsụ Nayi".  S.L.L.E. akụkọ asụsụ 16: 1-20.
 Aklilu Yilma, 2002. "Akụkọ nyocha asụsụ nke asụsụ Nayi nke Ethiopia. "  SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-010.
 Aklilu Yilma na Ralph Siebert. 1995. "Nnyocha nke Chara, Dime, Melo na Nayi, akụkụ 1."  S.L.L.E. akụkọ asụsụ 25: 2-8.