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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]

, 2010
Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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T’ambaaro phonology

Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2021
This article describes the phonology of T’ambaaro, a Highland East Cushitic language of the Afro-asiatic phylum spoken in southwest Ethiopia. The language has twenty-four consonant phonemes, and five oral vowels and one nasal vowel whose phonemic status ...
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
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Cushitic loans in South Nilotic revisited

Afrika und Übersee
This article explores lexical contact between Cushitic and Nilotic taking the proposed Cushitic language Proto Baz as point of departure. Proto Baz is a putative East Cushitic language proposed by Heine, Rottland & Vossen (1979), on the basis of words ...
Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold
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Comparison in Kambaata: Superiority, Equality and Similarity

Linguistic Discovery, 2018
This paper is an in-depth study of the expression of comparison in Kambaata, a Highland East Cushitic language of Ethiopia. It discusses not only quantitative comparison, i.e. comparison of relative and absolute inequality and comparison of equality, but
Yvonne Treis
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XIX: 2014/2015

Aethiopica, 2017
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XIX: 2014 ...
Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel, Thomas Rave   +2 more
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV: 2020

Aethiopica, 2022
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIV ...
Maria, Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Francesca   +2 more
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Language Shift or Maintenance? A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Ilwana Language of Tana River County

Les Cahiers d’Afrique de l’Est, 2020
Tana River County is home to a number of Bantu and Cushitic speech communities. The dominant groups are the Pokomo and the Orma, while other groups include the Waata/Sanye, Wardei, Ilwana/Malakote, Dahalo, Munyo-yaya, and some Somalis.
Bichang’a W. Nyaigoti
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The border as temporal horizon: a borderlands massacre and the contested futures of federalism in eastern Ethiopia

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 415-435, June 2025.
Abstract In 1995, a coalition of former rebel groups redrew Ethiopia's map, establishing an ethnic‐federal system. By 2017, internal border conflicts signalled federalism's potential unravelling. This article analyses expectations about federalism's future among Somalis in Ethiopia, drawing on anthropologies of time to understand how everyday processes
Daniel K. Thompson
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TRAPPED BETWEEN CASE AND NUMBER. A TYPOLOGY OF ADNUMERATIVE FORMS†

Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 215-257, April 2025.
In this paper, I study the nature of adnumerative or numerative forms; i.e. morphologically dedicated inflectional forms that can only be used with numerals or quantifiers (e.g. Russian dva časá ‘two o'clock’ vs. [gen sg] čása). Adnumeratives are cross‐linguistically very rare; yet they raise some interesting theoretical discussions. This work is based
Kristian Roncero
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Bibliographie zur äthiosemitischen und kuschitischen Sprachwissenschaft V: 2000

Aethiopica, 2013
Bibliography for the Study of Ethiosemitic, Cushitic and Omotic Languages.
Rainer Voigt
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