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Is Guanche Berber?

open access: yesStudia Orientalia Electronica
Guanche is an extinct language or languages spoken by the indigenous people of the Canary Islands. Although it is widely assumed that their language belonged to the Berber branch of the Afroasiatic languages, this has not been adequately tested.
Zev Brook
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Characterization of CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in Sub‐Saharan African Populations

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 115, Issue 3, Page 576-594, March 2024.
Genetic variation in CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 is known to impact interindividual response to antiretrovirals, nicotine, and bupropion, among other drugs. However, the full catalogue of clinically relevant pharmacogenetic variants in these genes is yet to be established, especially across African populations. This study therefore aimed to characterize the star
David Twesigomwe   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Hadza is (probably) not Afroasiatic: a discussion of Militarev’s “Hadza as Afrasian?”

open access: yes, 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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THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 45-70, March 2024.
ABSTRACT This article discusses the impact of genomic history, a subdiscipline that emerged in the study of the ancient Mediterranean in the 2010s. In 2014, scientists first published a method for extracting genetic material, which they christened aDNA (ancient DNA), from ancient human remains in hot climates.
Christopher Stedman Parmenter
wiley   +1 more source

Indo-European laryngeals in Afroasiatic perspective

open access: yes, 2020
Blazek Vaclav. Indo-European laryngeals in Afroasiatic perspective [Электронный ресурс] / Vaclav Blazek// Вопросы языкового родства. - 2011. - Вып. 5. - С. 1-22. - (Вестник РГГУ. Серия "Филологические науки. Языкознание" ; № 5 )
Blazek Vaclav
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Paul Newman: A Hausa–English Dictionary

open access: yesLexikos, 2011
Hausa (Chadic/Afroasiatic) is a major world language, spoken by more than 40 million people who are mostly found in northern Nigeria and the Republic of Niger. A sizeable number reside in other parts of Nigeria and the major cities of West Africa (Accra,
Malami Buba
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Indo-European zoonyms in Afroasiatic perspective

open access: yes, 2020
Blazek V. Indo-European zoonyms in Afroasiatic perspective [Электронный ресурс] / V. Blazek// Вопросы языкового родства. - 2013. - № 9. - С. 37-54. - (Вестник РГГУ. Серия "Филологические науки. Языкознание" ; № 5 (106)). - Библиогр.: с.
Blazek V.
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An Excerpt from the Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Anatomical Lexicon

open access: yesFolia Orientalia
The present study summarizes the anatomic lexicon of Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch according to all relevant sources published during last two centuries.
Václav Blažek
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The Production and Reception of a Mandaic Incantation

open access: yes, 2009
Chapter from: Häberl, Charles G. (ed.) (2009). Afroasiatic Studies in Memory of Robert Hetzron: Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 35), 130 ...

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The Mao and Komo Languages in the Begi – Tongo area in Western Ethiopia: Classification, Designations, and Distribution

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2015
This survey endeavours through field research along with a critical review of relevant literature to shed some light on the complicated socio-linguistic and language-geographic situation in the Begi–Tongo area in Western Ethiopia, and to suggest a more ...
Klaus-Christian Küspert
doaj   +1 more source

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