Suri (also Churi Dhuri Shuri Shuro Surma Tirma) is a Nilo-Saharan Eastern Sudanic language of the Surmic grouping. It is spoken in the Bench Maji Zone of the Southern Nations Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia to the South Sudan border and across the border in South Sudan by the Suri. The language has over 80% lexical similarity to Mursi.
ISO 639-3 code
suq
family
Surmic languages, Kir–Abbaian languages, Eastern Sudanic languages
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