Gamo an important member of the Ometo linguistic cluster is spoken to the west of the Rift
Valley in southern Ethiopia. Based on the native speaker utterances and intuitions of one of
the authors this pioneer work presents a basic grammar together with a first dictionary.
Lexical entries are glossed in both English and Amharic but the grammatical description is in
English only. The usage of most entries is illustrated in example sentences which in addition
to English and Amharic translations have detailed grammatical analyses.
