Kafa language
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Through Caste
A collection of proverbs in the language has been published by Mesfin Wodajo.
Phonology
Consonants
- /f/ may also be heard as [ɸ] in free variation.
- /b/ can be heard as a bilabial approximant [β̞] in intervocalic positions.
- /t/ can be realized as [ts] in word-final position.
Vowels
- /a/ may also have an allophone of [ə].
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Manjo
Within the Kafa culture there is a caste of traditional hunters called the Manja/Manjo 'hunters'. They may once have spoken a different language. However, Leikola has shown that currently they speak Kafa with a number of distinctive words and constructions that they use, reinforcing the distinctions between themselves and the larger Kafa society.