Suri (Churi, Dhuri, Shuri, Shuro), is aSurmic language spoken in theWest Omo Zone of theSouth West Ethiopia Peoples' Region inEthiopia, to theSouth Sudan border by theSuri. The language has over 80%lexical similarity toMursi.^[3] The language is often referred to by another form of its name,Surma, after which the Surmic branch of Eastern Sudanic is named, but that form is frequently used for the three related languages spoken by theSurma people: Suri, Mursi, and Me'en.

Suri is spoken in two dialect by two nationalities, theTirma (Tirmaga, Cirma, Dirma, Terema, Terna, Tid, Tirima, Tirmagi) and theChai (Caci, Cai).

• /ɗ/ may also be heard as a retroflex implosive [ᶑ] among the Chai dialect.
• /ʃ/ variant of [c] among speakers in the Tirmaga dialect. In the Chai dialect, it is heard as a separate phoneme.
• /ɾ/ can be heard as a trill [r] in word-final positions.
• /b, ɡ/ can be heard as [β, ɣ] in intervocalic positions.
• Implosives /ɓ, ɗ/ are heard as plosive sounds [p, t] in pre-consonantal and word-final positions.
• Sounds /b, ɟ, ɡ/ are devoiced as [p, c, k] pre-consonantal word-final.
• Some speakers of the Chai dialect may pronounce /s, z/ as dental fricatives [θ, ð].
• /j/ can be heard as a fricative [ð] among older speakers in different positions.
• A glottal stop [ʔ] may be heard in word-final position in connected speech.^[4]

• /i, u/ can be heard as [ɪ, ʊ] in closed syllables.^[5]

• Abbink, Jon, Michael Bryant & Daniel Bambu. 2013.Suri Orature: An Introduction to the Society, Language and Oral Culture of the Suri People (Southwest Ethiopia). Cologne: R. Köppe Publishers, 203 pp..
• Bryant, Mike and Bargola Olekibo, compilers. 1997.Surichen ko aranjacan ko golacan (Suri–English–Amharic dictionary). 2nd ed. S.l.: Surma Translation Project. 65 p.
• Bryant, Michael G. (1999).Aspects of Tirmaga Grammar (MA thesis). University of Texas, Arlington.
• Last, Marco; Lucassen, Deborah (1998). "A Grammatical Sketch on Chai, a Southeastern Surmic Language". In Dimmendaal, Gerrit; Last, Marco (eds.).Surmic Languages and Cultures. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. pp. 375–436.
• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "Disentangling the Two Languages Called 'Suri'".Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages7: 49-69.
• Last, Marco and Deborah Lucassen. 1998. "Violence and Political Discourse Among the Chai Suri". in: Dimmendaal, Gerrit and Marco Last (eds.)Surmic Languages and Cultures. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln. pp. 323.

• [1] Endangered Languages Project -- Suri
• [2] Surma People
• Suri basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database

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