Kafa language

Kafa or Kefa is a North Omotic language spoken in Ethiopia at the Keffa Zone. It is part of the Ethiopian Language Area, with SOV word order, ejective consonants, etc.
A collection of proverbs in the language has been published by Mesfin Wodajo.

Phonology

Consonants

/f/ may also be heard as in free variation.
/b/ can be heard as a bilabial approximant in intervocalic positions.
/t/ can be realized as in word-final position.

Vowels

/a/ may also have an allophone of .

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.