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Abstract This chapter gives a general overview of Cushitic. According to current classifications and sources, there are at least 30 living Cushitic languages. The Cushitic languages are spoken primarily in the modern nation states of Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania.
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Abstract This chapter gives a general overview of Cushitic. According to current classifications and sources, there are at least 30 living Cushitic languages. The Cushitic languages are spoken primarily in the modern nation states of Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania.
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Cushites, Colchians, and Khazars
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1959T HEN Herodotus visited Colchis (Mingrelia) in the fifth century B.c.,1 he found its people to be, as he described them, black-skinned and woolly-haired--that is, seemingly, of Negro type. They were, he says, circumcised. "The Colchians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians," he remarks, "are the only races which from ancient times have practised ...
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I present the main results of the LHEAf project, www.lheaf.org on this topic arguing 1. South Cushitic is not part of East Cushitic, 2. Proto Tanzanian Cushitic is influenced by Oromo in Kenya, 3. Taita Cushitic is South Cushitic, 4. (Tanzanian) South Cushitic and South Nilotic / Datooga were in contact. On the basis of the linguistic history I discuss
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Archaeo-astronomical Cushites: Some Comments
Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 1982This article examines the interpretation of some stone monuments in north-eastern Kenya put forward by Dr M. Lynch. Mr Soper is now with the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nairobi. The article is followed by Dr. Lynch's observations.
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Applicative constructions in Cushitic
The article reviews and proposes new analyses of the morphology, syntax, and semantics of applicative constructions, periphrastic, preverbal and suffixal strategies, and applicative lookalikes in Cushitic languages (Afroasiatic).openaire +1 more source