Kwegu language

Kwegu
Native to	Ethiopia
Region	Southwest, Omo River west bank
Ethnicity	5,100 Kwegu (2007 census)
Native speakers	(ca. 300 cited 1987-1990)[1]
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Eastern Sudanic? Southern Eastern? Surmic South Southeast Kwegu
Dialects	Yidinich (Yidinit) Muguji
Language codes
ISO 639-3	xwg
Glottolog	kweg1241
ELP	2677 Kwegu
Kwegu
Coordinates: 7°00′00″N 36°04′59″E / 7.0°N 36.083°E / 7.0; 36.083

Kwegu (also Bacha, Koegu, Kwegi, Menja, Nidi) is a Surmic language spoken in the Southwest of Ethiopia, on the west bank of the Omo River.

• Hieda, Osamu. 1998. "A sketch of Koegu grammar: Towards reconstructing Proto-Southeastern Surmic" in Gerrit Dimmendaal and Marco Last (eds.), Surmic Languages and Cultures. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp 345–373.

• World Atlas of Language Structures information on Kwegu
• Kwegu basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database
• ELAR archive of Koegu (Kwegu)

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