Tags: Language.
Bussa or Mossiya is a Cushitic language spoken in the Dirashe special woreda of the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region located in southern Ethiopia. The people themselves numbering 18000 according to the 2007 census call their language Mossittaata.Blench (2006) reclassified Bussa from the Dullay to Konsoid branch of Cushitic but left the Mashole Lohu and Dobase (D’oopace D’opaasunte) dialects in Dullay as the Dobase language.