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The grammatical primacy of tone in Cushitic
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 The current dimensions in the typology of tone are not insightful for understanding the properties of tone in Cushitic languages. Some Cushitic languages are characterised as “pitch-accent” and these cannot be considered stress languages because the ...
Mous, Maarten
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, 2021 Cushitic languages have a number of interesting properties in the category of number. None of these are valid for all Cushitic languages. Number is not obligatorily expressed in various Cushitic languages which have a general number form that is unspeci^ed for number.
Mous, Maarten, NIAS_library,
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Cushitic–Nilotic Contacts: Tanzanian Cushitic and Kalenjin
, 2023 Heine, Rottland and Vossen (1979) proposed a Cushitic language termed proto-Baz on the basis of Cushitic loans in South Nilotic. Similar and additional proposals are in Christopher Ehret’s PhD thesis (1971). In a critical review of the evidence in the light of data and reconstructions that have become available since, we argue that (1) there is no ...
Mous, Maarten, Rapold, Christian
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, 2020 AbstractThe North Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic phylum consists of only one language, Beja. Lexicostatistic studies show that only 20% of the basic vocabulary is shared with the two closest East Cushitic languages, Afar and Saho, and with Agaw, a Central Cushitic language.
Vanhove, Martine
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXV: 2021
Aethiopica, 2023 Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXV: 2021
Maria Bulakh +2 more
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From Elmolo to Gura Pau: A remembered Cushitic language of Lake Turkana and its possible revitalization [PDF]
Studies in African Linguistics, 2015 This article discusses the “extinct” Elmolo language of the Lake Turkana area in Kenya. A surprisingly large amount of the vocabulary of this Cushitic language (whose community shifted to Nilotic Samburu in the 20th century), far from being lost and ...
Mauro Tosco
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Word Classes in Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic (Afroasiatic)
, 2023 Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the word classes in Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, and Cushitic languages. It illustrates different scenarios in the make-up and evolution of word categories, which focuses on verbs, nouns, and adjectives.
Martine Vanhove
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Genetic relationship and the case of Ma'a Mbugu
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 This paper addresses the general question of genetic vs. nongenetic language development, in the context of a structural and historical discussion of Ma'a (Mbugu), a language with Cushitic basic vocabulary that is spoken in Tanzania.
Sarah G. Thomason
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Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages.
Derek Nurse
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A diachronic semantic map of the Optative negative in Beja (North-Cushitic)
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2022 The Optative negative of Beja is a multifunctional paradigm which encodes optative, hortative and jussive grammatical meanings, depending on the person, as well as participant-internal and participant-external modalities of impossibility and unnecessity.
Vanhove Martine
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