Abessinia and (he neighbouring Countries. 271 



In support of this opinion as to both these languages of 

 Tufte and Tambaro, I may cite the authority of Dr Krapf, as 

 repeated by Major Harris,* that the language of KaflPa " is 

 common to Gobo, Tuff tee, and Dumbaro:' This latter mode 

 of spelling the name, which, correctly pronounced, is T'am- 

 b4ro or T^ambaro, arises from the habit so common among 

 the natives of Upper Germany, of confounding the sounds of 

 the hard and soft consonants. 



C. The Gonga Group, styled by M. d'Abbadie " the Cha- 

 mitic languages of Great Damot." These consist of — 



1. The Sidama. 



2. The Daurua (Dawrooa). 



3. The Yamma or Yingara. 



4. The Shay. 



Dr Latham has already adverted to the fact that the first 

 three of these lanffuaffes are identical with those of Kaffa, 

 Woratta, and Yangaro, of which vocabularies have been 

 given by me in the Proceedings of the Philological Society. 

 Sidama is the name by which Kaffa is known to the Gallas ;t 

 Dasvaro (Dawrua) is either the same with, or a part of, the 

 country of Woratta ;% and Yamma is, as M. d'Abbadie himself 

 shows, the same as Ydngara, that is to say, my Y4ngaro or 

 Djandjaro, which is the Gingiro of the maps. As to that 

 traveller's Shay, which he describes as " a language spoken 

 by the Gimira, Gamaru (Gamarou), or Gamru,'' and which, he 

 says, " a collection of 400 Avords induces him to place side by 

 side with the Sidama," this tongue seems, from another state- 

 ment of the same traveller, to be merely a dialect of the lan- 

 guage of Kaffa, if it be not absolutely identical with it. In 

 speaking of the country of Kaffa, he says, " Kaffa est le nom 

 des Gallas, les Abyssins disent Sidama, et les indigenes appel- 

 lent leur pays Gomara'''% In this statement there is, how- 

 ever, an error : it is the Abessinians who say Kaffa, and the 

 Gallas who say Sid4ma. 



* Highlands of Ethiopia, vol. iii. p. 6. 



t Journal of the Royal Qeographical Society, vol. xiii. p. 2&\. 



X Ibid., map. 



§ Bulletin de la Societe de Oeoyraphie de Paris, Sd Series, vol. xviii. p. 355. 



