The objective of this study was to describe and di scuss the sy llable structure and sy llablernbased morphophonemic processes in Dorze. The language under study, Dorze, is anrnOmotic language spoken in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region.rnThe methodology used is an informant method where data were recorded and elicitedrnfrom informants.rnIt has been identified that Dorze has 26 consonant and 5 vowel phonemes. Vowels IiI andrnI~I are variants of I ii and leI respectively. As discu ssed in chapter two, there are also casesrnof consonant gemination and vowel lengthening in which both are contrastive. Regardingrnthe syllable types, there are 8 kinds of sy llable shapes identified for Dorze: V, ev, eve,rnevve, evee, evvee, ve and evv. Furthermore, both heavy and light syllablernshapes are also found.rnThe theoretical framework employed to analyze the syllable structure was the Moraicrnaccount of Autosegmental phonology. The Moraic theory claims that the only interveningrnelement between the syllable node and the segmental root node is the mora. The cunceptrnof heavy and light syllable is also another assumption that is used to best explainrnsegmental length distinctions. It also claims that there is a case of compensatoryrnlengthening involving deletion of a segment and lengthening of another so as torncompensate for the deleted segment.rnSyllable and sy llable related Issues were also treated. More specifically, basicrnconstituents of the syllable, types of the syllable, phonotactic constraints andrnsyllabificat ion processes in light of the Moraic theory were discussed. FollowingrnClements and Keyser (1983), Dorze is identified as type IV language where a vowelrnalone can const itute a sy llable. Furthermore, the phonotactics of Dorze was alsorndiscussed where onset is an optional element and is filled by only one segment while arnmaximum of two consonants are allowed at syllable final position.