John Benjamins, 2021. — viii, 415 p. — [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 48]. The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. — 423 p. — (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 48). The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and...
Paris: Librairie Klincksieck, 1956. — xx + 277 p. — (Collection linguistique publiée par la Société de Linguistique de Paris 57). The Gafat language is an extinct South Ethiopian Semitic language that was once spoken along Abbay River (Blue Nile) in Ethiopia, and later speakers pushed south of Gojjam in modern day Eastern Wellega Oromoia region. The records of this language are...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1979. — cvi, 856 p. This volume is the etymological section of the Etymological Dictionary of Gurage of which the first volume comprises individual dictionaries of twelve Gurage dialects, and the second volume is an English-Gurage Index. The twelve dialects are: Caha, Eža, Ennemor, Endegeň and Gyeto belonging to West Gurage; Selti, Wolane and Zway...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1988. — 551 p. My first book was published fifty years ago, in 1938. The present volume is meant to give an overview of my scientific activity of these last fifty years. I would like to start by stating that the idea and the title of the present book were inspired by Marcel Cohen's book Cinquante annees de recherche, 1955. Among the various Semitic...
Imprimerie Catholique, 1954. — 86 p. — (Mélanges de l'Université Saint Joseph XXXI: Fasc. 2). Ce type qätala est également représenté en guèze et dans toutes les langues éthiopiennes modernes, mais la fonction morphologique et sémantique n'est plus la même. Avant de mentionner les conclusions auxquelles Fleisch arrive pour la fonction de cette forme verbale en éthiopien, il...
Istituto orientale di Napoli, 1982. — 87 p. The present study makes use only of Geez, Tigrinya, and Amharic cognates, in keeping with the procedure that Littmann-Hofner used in their dictionary. Only occasionally do I mention other Semitic Ethiopian languages and Arabic. The cognates mentioned by the authors are preceded by an asterisk (*), while my own comparisons are...
Istituto orientale di Napoli, 1982. — 87 p. The present study makes use only of Geez, Tigrinya, and Amharic cognates, in keeping with the procedure that Littmann-Hofner used in their dictionary. Only occasionally do I mention other Semitic Ethiopian languages and Arabic. The cognates mentioned by the authors are preceded by an asterisk (*), while my own comparisons are...
University of California Press, 1958. — 86 p. — (University of California Publications in Semitic Philology 21). Harari is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken by the Harari people of Ethiopia. According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, it is spoken by 25,810 people. Harari is closely related to the Eastern Gurage languages, Zay, and Silt'e, all of whom are linked to the now...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2004. — 224 p. — (Äthiopistische Forschungen 63). Gurage has twelve dialects that can be divided in East Gurage (Selti, Wolane and Zway) West Gurage (Caha, Endegen, Ennemor, Eza and Gyeto) and North Gurage (Soddo). The categorization of three further Gurage dialects (Muher, Masqan and Gogot) remains to be investigated. The present studies aims to shed...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014. — 300 p. — (Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 91). Explorations in Ethiopian Linguistics brings together twelve contributions on linguistic problems at the interface of morphosyntax and semantics/pragmatics in Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages of Ethiopia. The first section of the volume consists of two articles on interrogativity...
Rüdiger Köppe, 2005. — 426 S. — (Grammatical Analyses of African Languagess/Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen 25). Zay is an Ethiosemitic language and therefore belongs to the Afro-Asiatic branch. It is spoken in Ethiopia at the five islands of the Lake Zway, but also on the shore and the surrounding mainland. The population census does not count the Zay people as...
Taylor's (Foreign) Press, 1955. — 285 p. Interest in the nature and degree of the relationship of the various Semitic Ethiopian languages to each other as well as to classical Ethiopic (Gəˁəz) has sporadically flared up ever since the great pioneering efforts of F. Praetorius invited attention to this field. In Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia a vigorous argument has long been...
De Gruyter, 1965. — 334 p. — (Bibliographies on the Near East 1). The languages spoken in Ethiopia belong to three linguistic families: Semitic, Cushitic, and Nilotic. This bibliography deals with the Semitic group. The languages of the Semitic group are divided into (1) North Ethiopic, including Geez, Tigre, and Tigrinya; (2) South Ethiopic, including Amharic, Argobba, Gafat,...
University Utrecht, 2014. — 263 p. This dissertation is about non-verbal predication - i.e. the main predicate is an NP, an AP or a PP - in two Ethiopian Semitic languages, namely Amharic and Geez1. Amharic belongs to the South Ethiopian branch of the Semitic language subfamily. It is the most widely spoken language. Unlike Amharic, Geez does not have native speakers these...
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