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Aegyptio-afroasiatica VIII : first Version
Linguistica, 1996 The present paper represents the eighth part of a series of contributions to com parative Afroasiatic lexicology primarily from the viewpoint of Egyptian.
Gabor Takacs
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2020., 2020 Abstract Language use in mountainous areas often exhibits special social dynamics. This contribution sketches some of the most salient patterns of language use in upland Southeast Asia ,the greater Himalayas, the Caucasus, the Central Andes, the New Guinea highlands, and touches upon the Alps and some highland areas of Africa and North America ...
Matthias Urban
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Proto-Berber phonological reconstruction: An update
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2020 Over the last decades, our insights in the phonological history of Berber and the reconstruction of its earlier stages greatly evolved. This is thanks to an emergent discussion and to new data on a number of languages that are crucial to reconstructing ...
Maarten Kossmann
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Gender and number morphology in Ethio-Eritrean semitic languages
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 The vowel -ā can be identified as a marker of nominal and verbal plurality in different Semitic and Afroasiatic languages. The vowels -ā (feminine plural) and -ū (masculine plural) which are used for both internal and external plurals are, according to ...
Tesfay Tewolde Johannes
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Can mtDNA contribute to disentangle the Afro-Asiatic querelle?
Journal of Biological Research, 2012 -
L. Castri +11 more
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The Semitic root evolution (cultural and historical aspect)
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 The paper considers the long-ago perceived, but inadequately studied phenomenon of the Semitic root triconsonantism. Some examples of the paradigm realization from the Biblical Hebrew, where the adducing of the third consonant to a 2C-root (biconsonantal)
A.E. Zeldin
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A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 The article provides a grammatical sketch of Ongota, a language on the brink of extinction (actively used by eight out of an ethnic group of nearly one hundred) spoken in the South Omo Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia.
Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco
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Lutz Edzard (ed.), Semitic and Afroasiatic: Challenges and Opportunities
Aethiopica, 2014 Review
Alessandro Bausi
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Folia Orientalia, 2021 In the present contribution the Beja botanical terminology is analyzed from the point of view of semantic motivation. The study is limited only to the unborrowed part of the botanical lexicon (with some exceptions), together 76 terms. First 51 terms are
Václav Blažek
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Beja Kinship and Social Terminology
Folia OrientaliaThe contribution concentrates on the kinship terminology in Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages. The first aim is a summarisation of all relevant lexical data including all dialects and from all available ...
Václav Blažek
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