Surmic languages

Surmic languages
also called  Didinga-Murle  or  Surma 

      group of languages that are spoken in southwestern Ethiopia and neighbouring zones of the southern Sudan (Sudan, The) and that form part of the Nilo-Saharan language family (Nilo-Saharan languages). The three branches of Surmic languages are the Northern, represented by the Majang language; the Southwestern, including Baale, Didinga, Narim, Murle, and Tennet; and the Southeastern, including Chai, Kwegu, Me'en, Mursi, and Tirma.

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