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Sidamo

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Summary

Sidamo is a natural language[1]. Sidamo draws 427 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #279 of 734).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Ethiopia[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Cushitic[5]
  • Writing system: Latin script[6], Geʽez script[7]
  • Wikimedia language code: sid[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sidamo language[9]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 1,800,000[10]
  • Indigenous to: Oromia Region[11], Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region[12]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/SID[13]
  • Ethnologue language status: 4 Educational[14]
  • Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[15]

Why It Matters

Sidamo has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] Sidamo is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Ethiopia

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_sidamo_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Sidamo}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/sidamo}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-14}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 906
    Sitelink count → 30
    Wikipedia languages → ['am', 'ar', 'br', 'ca', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fi', 'fr', 'functions', 'gl',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 906, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7326838|Sidamo (#7326838)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Country → Ethiopia
    Instance of → —
    Indigenous to → Oromia Region, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007543768305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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