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Possible Khoe contact with Afroasiatic languages: systematic click-sibilant correspondences
, 2021 Genetic evidence (Pickrell et al. 2014; Breton et al. 2014) points to partial Khoe ancestry from Eastern Africa within the past two millennia. The recency of this migration points towards potential linguistic influence on Khoe languages by those in the ...
Schwab, Andre
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, 2018 Afroasiatic languages are the fourth largest linguistic phylum, spoken by some 350 million people in North, West, Central, and East Africa, in the Middle East, and in scattered communities in Europe, the United States, and the Caucasus.
Zygmunt Frajzyngier
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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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Re-examination of the Semantic Components of "Qaryah" in the Holy Qur'an with Special Emphasis on Etymological Approach [PDF]
مطالعات قرآن و حدیث, 2022 "Qaryah" is the most frequent word belonging to the semantic field of "town/ village" in the Holy Qur'an. In recent decades, the discussions about semantic distinctions between "Qaryah" and other words belonging to the same semantic field such as ...
Ahmad Pakatchi +2 more
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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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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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Why Hadza is (probably) not Afroasiatic: a discussion of Militarev’s “Hadza as Afrasian?” [PDF]
, 2023 Problems with the lexical evidence used to posit Hadza as an Afroasiatic language are discussed. The failure to identify certain loanwords and the misanalysis of certain Hadza morphemes are problems rectified by having greater familiarity with Hadza and ...
Harvey, A. +3 more
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Emergenz und Genese der Tonalität im Tschadischen: Ein Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte Nordostafrikas
Folia OrientaliaThe Chadic languages, numbering approximately 150 and spoken in central Sudan, did not—as members of the Afroasiatic phylum—originally dispose and make use of the structural feature of tonality.
Herrmann Jungraithmayr
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Lutz Edzard (ed.), Semitic and Afroasiatic: Challenges and Opportunities
Aethiopica, 2014 Review
Alessandro Bausi
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