Most of the Koore people reside in the Amaaro mountains east of Lake Abbaya,Ethiopia.
Example: garma-i doro muu-d-o Lion sheep eat The lion ate a sheep Noun pluralization The plural marker in the koorete language is -ita and because it starts with a vowel, all the nouns whether they end with a vowel or a consonant.
Example Personal Pronouns in Koorete Examples: 1) Tan-i garma good-d-o I chased a lion 2) Garma-I taa(tamba) good-d-o A lion chased me Interrogative pronouns 1)oon-I = who 2)oon-a = who 3)oone-se = to whom/whose 4)aba = what 5)am = what 6)aya = where 7)aya-pa = from where 8)aide = when 9)waidi = how 10)waara = how (in greetings) 11)aasawa = which 12)abasuw = why 13)aba bisha = what type 14)aba genno=how much 15)aba allo = how many Examples: 1)Oon-I maatse ush-sh-a who milk drink who drank milk?
The usage of them is determined by the location and the closeness of the referred item or thing also respecting the speaker or hearer and its visibility in the sentence structure.
Usually, the position of the relative clause in a noun sentence is to proceed the head element also switching the order will not lead to grammatical mistakes.
In this sentence the relative clause comes after the head noun and the structure is grammatically correct.
It can be shown as -o suffix Example: garma-i adurr-I’-o bee-d-o Lion cat see A lion saw the small cat Genitive case It is shown as -i suffix and it appears only with nouns ending with consonant so it does not appear a lot since most of the nouns in koorete ends with vowel.
Example: bush-i zawa Girl-gen house Girl’s house Genitive can be used to describe possession, as for nouns ending with vowel the suffix -I cannot be used and to show the genitive case, it is shown by the word order possessor followed by possessed.
Example: indo zawa Woman house Woman’s house The genitive case usage in Koorete language is not only to show possession but also to show other kinds of genitive relations like source,purpose,location,etc.
Dative Case It is used to show an indirect object in a sentence in the koorete language.
Example: es-ume in-g-u-wa Him give Pass it to him Ablative Case It is shown in the form of -pa suffix.
Example: is-i zaw-aka utt-o She house sit She sat in a house Ade-I be ma’o shoori-y-a sho-t-o Man reflexive cloth river wash A man washed his cloth in a river.