language: bcq

Information
has URI	http://lexvo.org/id/term/language/bcq
has gloss	eng: 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.
lexicalization	eng: Bench language
lexicalization	eng: Bench
subclass of	e/Ometo-Gimira languages
instance of	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ometo-Gimira_languages
instance of	http://www.mpii.de/yago/resource/Ometo-Gimira_languages

Meaning
German
has gloss	deu: Bench (auch Gimira, was als abwertend empfunden wird) ist eine nordomotische Sprache der Gimojan-Untergruppe und wird von etwa 174.000 Menschen (Stand 1998) in der Bench Maji Zone der Region der südlichen Nationen, Nationalitäten und Völker, in Südäthiopien um die Städte Mizan Teferi und Shewa Gimira gesprochen.
lexicalization	deu: Bench
Finnish
has gloss	fin: Bench-nimisestä vaatemerkistä kertoo artikkeli Bench (vaatemerkki). Bench on Etiopiassa puhuttava pohjoisomoottinen kieli, jota puhuu äidinkielenään noin 174 000 Bench Majin alueella asuvaa henkilöä (1998). Toisin kuin alueen muissa kielissä benchissä on foneemisia tooneja peräti kuusi.
lexicalization	fin: Bench
French
has gloss	fra: Le gimira (ou bench, autonyme, bentʂ4 non4) est une langue afro-asiatique de la branche des langues omotiques parlée en Éthiopie, dans l'Ouest de la province de Kaffa, dans la région des villes de Mizan Teferi et Shewa Gimira, par Bench et She.
lexicalization	fra: gimira
Croatian
has gloss	hrv: Bench jezik (dizu, ghimarra, gimarra, gimira; ISO 639-3: ), afrazijski jezik omotske porodice kojim u regiji Kafa u Etiopiji, govori 174.000 ljudi (1994 popis) iz grupe Gimira ili Bench, u koje prema Cerullijevoj pripadaju plemena Shako, Dizu-Benesho, She, Kaba, Nao i Maji .
lexicalization	hrv: Bench