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Wonderful resource, available for free elsewhere, March 5, 2011
This review is from: Bench Language / Version: 1990 The Bible Society of Ethiopia / Bench is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (as of 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations. (MP3 CD)
Finding audio of the Bench language for those wanting to study it is all but impossible, but here you have many hours of wonderfully clear recorded audio made by several talented speakers, male and female. Available as a free download at the Faith Comes By Hearing website -- the entire New Testament in Bench. A world treasure.
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Bench Language MP3 New Testament, February 6, 2011
This review is from: Bench Language / Version: 1990 The Bible Society of Ethiopia / Bench is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (as of 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations. (MP3 CD)
MP3 New Testametn CD in Bench Language
Language: Bench
Version: 1990 The Bible Society of Ethiopia
Available Option: New Testament - Drama
Bench (also called Gimira, considered a derogatory term) is a Northern Omotic language of the "Gimojan" subgroup, spoken by about 174,000 people (as of 1998) in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, in southern Ethiopia, around the towns of Mizan Teferi and Shewa Gimira. It has three mutually intelligible dialects: Bench proper, She, and Mer. In unusual variance from most of the other languages in Africa, Bench has retroflex consonant phonemes. The language is also noteworthy in that it has six phonemic tones, one of only a handful of languages in the world that have this many.
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