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African evolutionary history inferred from whole genome sequence data of 44 indigenous African populations [PDF]
Genome Biology, 2019 Background Africa is the origin of modern humans within the past 300 thousand years. To infer the complex demographic history of African populations and adaptation to diverse environments, we sequenced the genomes of 92 individuals from 44 indigenous ...
Shaohua Fan +16 more
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Human ancestry correlates with language and reveals that race is not an objective genomic classifier [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 Genetic and archaeological studies have established a sub-Saharan African origin for anatomically modern humans with subsequent migrations out of Africa.
Jennifer L. Baker +2 more
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Word Classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
, 2023 Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the word classes in Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic languages. It illustrates different scenarios in the make-up and evolution of word categories, which focuses on verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
Oréal, Elsa, Vanhove, Martine
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Aethiopica, 2023 The present article was prompted by Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes’s ‘Colonial Rewriting of African History: Misinterpretations and Distortions in Belcher and Kleiner’s Life and Struggles of Walatta Petros’ as published in a special issue of the Journal of ...
Michael Kleiner
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Sara Petrollino, A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic Language of Ethiopia
Aethiopica, 2020 Review
Ronny Meyer
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Gərma Awgəččäw Dämmäqä, ቋንቋና ነገድ በኢትዮጵያ, I: የኢትዮጵያ ህዝብ ማንነትና ቅድመታሪክ (ከቋንቋ አንፃር)
Aethiopica, 2021 Book ...
Maria Bulakh
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Emphasis, glottalization and pharyngealization in Semitic and Afroasiatic
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021 This paper investigates the phenomenon of emphasis in Semitic from a phonological perspective. It is well known that Semitic emphatics can be realized either as ejectives (Ethiosemitic) or as pharyngealized consonants (Arabic).
Fabio Gasparini
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The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic
Studies in African Linguistics, 1991 Hans-Jiirgen Sasse established a solid initial reconstruction of the proto-Eastern Cushitic (PEC) consonants. This initial system had about 20 to 23 consonants. Further work by Linda Arvanites indicated the existence of several additional consonants. The
Christopher Ehret
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Did Proto-Chadic have velar nasals and prenasalised obstruents?
Afrika und Übersee, 2022 Ever since the Afroasiatic affiliation of Chadic as a whole was suggested by Joseph H. Greenberg in his seminal re-classification of African languages since the 1950s and has been generally accepted, i.e.
H. Ekkehard Wolff
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A partial reconstruction of Berber (Amazigh) deictics
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023 This article studies a number of questions in the reconstruction of the Berber deictic system. Based on a comparative analysis informed by historical phonology, it is shown (1) that the variation of the form of the singular proximal deictics can be ...
Maarten Kossmann
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