Alaba-Kʼabeena (Alaaba, Alaba, Allaaba, Halaba), also known as Wanbasana, is a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia by the Halaba and Kebena people in the Great Rift Valley southwest of Lake Shala, specifically in Alaba special district, the Kebena district of Gurage Zone, and the Goro district of Oromia Region.
The 2007 census in Ethiopia lists Alaba and Qebena as separate languages.
Alaba has ten vowels, which contrast in height and backness as well as in length.
[8] In Alaba grammatical gender is indicated by word-final vowels for masculine and feminine words.
[11] The Absolutive is used in different syntactic environments: as the citation form of nouns, to encode the direct object, as the nominal predicate, marginally to indicate a location with non-motional verbs and to indicate a certain point of time.
[12] The Genetive in Alaba is mainly used to indicate a possessive relationship by using a suffix marker as it can be seen below in the table.
[13] So, the suffix marker attaches to the possessor, independent from the gender of the possessed.
"[14] The form of the Dative in Alaba is based on morphological features that were shown in the Genetive above.
[16]The table below shows the pronouns and pronominal clitics (PC) related to their grammatical cases.