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Ideophones and verbal constructions with the verb ‘say’ in Amharic

open access: yesLinguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Amharic (Ethiosemitic) has verbal predicates of two types: (i) verbs derived from a consonantal root and (ii) complex predicates consisting of an invariant coverb followed by an inflecting light verb, most commonly the verb alä ‘say’.
Ronny Meyer
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AHWR-Net: offline handwritten amharic word recognition using convolutional recurrent neural network

open access: yesSN Applied Sciences, 2021
Amharic ( ) is the official language of the Federal Government of Ethiopia, with more than 27 million speakers. It uses an Ethiopic script, which has 238 core and 27 labialized characters. It is a low-resourced language, and a few attempts have been made
Fetulhak Abdurahman   +2 more
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Morphologically Annotated Amharic Text Corpora

open access: yes, 2021
International audienceIn information retrieval (IR), documents that match the query are retrieved. Search engines usually conflate word variants into a common stem when indexing documents because queries and documents do not need to use exactly the same ...
Yaregal Assabie   +5 more
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Gamo's cultural forum-Dubussha as a tool for social change communication: Illiteracy and child labor abuse as a case in point

open access: yesHeliyon
This study investigated the instrumental potential of Gamo's traditional dialogue forum-Dubussha-for social change communication in general, using illiteracy and child labour abuse as a case in point.
Mekonen Teka Ayalew, Tafesse Walea Wanke
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Electrification and Child Work: Direct and Spillover Effects in Ethiopia

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electrification is often promoted for improving adults' labor supply, its effect on child work remains underexplored. Using four waves of Ethiopian panel data, we examine how electrification affects children's work time. By differentiating between households with and without own electricity access within electrified communities, we ...
Theresa Pieper, Thanh‐Tung Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

Reliance on Predicative Units as a Method of Analysing and Translating Amharic Written Texts

open access: yesAethiopica, 2020
In analysing and translating Amharic texts, most foreign students have experienced major problems while trying to ‘redirect’ the rigidly leftbranching syntax of Amharic into the predominantly right-branching syntax of most European languages. The way out
Iosif Fridman
doaj   +1 more source

A Speaker Independent Continuous Speech Recognizer for Amharic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The paper discusses an Amharic speaker independent continuous speech recognizer based on an HMM/ANN hybrid approach. The model was constructed at a context dependent phone part sub-word level with the help of the CSLU Toolkit. A promising result of 74.28%
Gambäck, Björn, Seid, Hussien
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Emotional and motivational intelligence in Ethiopian high school learners' writing performance in relation to gender differences

open access: yesAsian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the role of emotional and motivational intelligence in educational settings. Studies have shown that these factors can significantly impact students' academic performance.
Belete Hiluf, Marew Alemu
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The medium of instruction in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions: Kotebe Metropolitan University Case study.

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
The aim of this article is to examine the medium of instruction in Ethiopian higher education institutions and the perceived consequences of the failure to learn a lingua franca.
Bekau Atnafu Taye
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100 Jahre Amharisch-Unterricht in Hamburg

open access: yesAethiopica, 2020
The article offers a spirited account of the 100-year-old history of teaching Amharic at the Universität Hamburg. It presents significant turning points in the fortunes of Amharic as a foreign language first taught in the Kolonialinstitut and then at the
Ludwig Gerhardt
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