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Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation. [PDF]

Cell, 2023
Fan S, Spence JP, Feng Y, Hansen MEB, Terhorst J, Beltrame MH, Ranciaro A, Hirbo J, Beggs W, Thomas N, Nyambo T, Mpoloka SW, Mokone GG, Njamnshi A, Folkunang C, Meskel DW, Belay G, Song YS, Tishkoff SA.   +18 more
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An Excerpt from the ‘Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Fauna in Beja Lexicon’

Folia Orientalia
The contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with zoological terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
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Areal features and linguistic areas: contact-induced change and geographical typology

, 2011
[Extract] What are the reasons for similarities between languages? Linguistic categories can be similar because they are universal-for instance, every language has some way of asking a question or framing a command.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, Aikhenvald, Alexandra   +1 more
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Co-occurrence restrictions in the vocalic patterns of Afroasiatic plurals

, 2011
International audienceThis paper examines the vocalic patterns in the plural forms of four languages in Afroasiatic. Focus is made on the co-occurrence restrictions that the vowels obey in these forms; particularly it is shown that plurals in which high ...
Lahrouchi, Mohamed
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Transfixation in Hausa: a hypothetical analysis

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2011
The paper deals with the non-contiguous morphs in Hausa which are regarded as the manifestation of transfixation. Transfixation is an Afroasiatic feature that is apparent in Arabic.
Bello S. Y. Al-Hassan
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Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985

, 1987
What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question.
Bernal, Martin
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The one replaced by a crow An Amazigh tale from Eastern Kabylia (Tasahlit/English)

Journal of African Languages and Literatures
This tale was recorded in December 2022 in Melbou (Aït Segoual confederation, Aït Bouhafan fraction, Eastern Kabylia, Algeria) by Youdas N’ Saâdi Lbuhfani from his mother Tabaâmrant.
Massinissa Garaoun
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Impact of natural selection on global patterns of genetic variation and association with clinical phenotypes at genes involved in SARS-CoV-2 infection. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Zhang C, Verma A, Feng Y, Melo MCR, McQuillan M, Hansen M, Lucas A, Park J, Ranciaro A, Thompson S, Rubel MA, Campbell MC, Beggs W, Hirbo J, Wata Mpoloka S, George Mokone G, Regeneron Genetic Center, Nyambo T, Wolde Meskel D, Belay G, Fokunang C, Njamnshi AK, Omar SA, Williams SM, Rader DJ, Ritchie MD, de la Fuente-Nunez C, Sirugo G, Tishkoff SA.   +28 more
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Segmental Effects on (De)gemination in Western Gurage

, 2001
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages ...
O\u27Bryan, Todd, Rose, Sharon
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Counting, Measuring And The Semantics Of Classifiers

The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010
This paper makes two central claims. The first is that there is an intimate and non-trivial relation between the mass/count distinction on the one hand and the measure/individuation distinction on the other: a (if not the) defining property of mass nouns
Susan Rothstein
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