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The approximative derivation in Kambaata (Cushitic) [PDF]
Zeitschrift für Wortbildung, 2023 Kambaata, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, has a productive, word-class changing approximation derivation. The process marked by the suffix -lab takes adjectival, nominal and verbal roots as inputs and generates approximatives that belong to the ...
Yvonne Treis
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South Cushitic Classification in Lexicostatistic Perspective [PDF]
Folia Orientalia, 2019 A purpose of the present study is an evaluation of various models of classification of the South branch of the Cushitic languages. The South Cushitic languages are studied in their narrow sense here, i.e. without Dahalo and Ma’a, although their probable
Václav Blažek
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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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The grammatical primacy of tone in Cushitic [PDF]
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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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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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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Topics in Linguistics, 2022 This study identifies, analyses and describes the devices and functions of focus in information structuring in Hadiyya, a Highland East Cushitic language.
Menore Dereje Adane +1 more
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIII: 2019
Aethiopica, 2021 Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIII ...
Maria Bulakh +2 more
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII: 2018
Aethiopica, 2020 Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII ...
Maria Bulakh +2 more
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