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Refinitization of the Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) [PDF]

, 2016
version avant révisionInternational audienceThis chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which ...
Vanhove, Martine
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX: 2016

Aethiopica, 2018
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XX ...
Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel, Francesca Panini   +2 more
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Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic [PDF]

, 2011
A large part of the morphology of Beja, the sole language of the Northern branch of Cushitic (Afroasiatic), belongs to the root and pattern system. This system is typologically similar to the Semitic one (particularly robust in Arabic) and is also found ...
Vanhove, Martine
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A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia

Studies in African Linguistics, 2000
The article provides a grammatical sketch of Ongota, a language on the brink of extinction (actively used by eight out of an ethnic group of nearly one hundred) spoken in the South Omo Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia.
Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco
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Martino’s Fragments: a personal library and its emblematic story

Bibliothecae.it, 2023
The personal library of Martino Mario Moreno, a diplomat who worked in the Italian colonies and became a scholar of Semitic and Cushitic linguistics, as well as of Islam and Arabic literature, has undergone a troubled history, marked by the fate of the ...
Oscar Nalesini
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A Bigger Picture of Early Literacy and Biliteracy Acquisition in Abugidas: Perspectives from Asian and African Languages

Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 499-513, July/August/September 2024.
Abstract With the overwhelming “Anglocentric” or “alphabetocentric” science of reading, the current review aimed to add to the science of reading acquisition from the perspective of abugidic writing system, distinct from the well‐research alphabetic writing system in multiple dimensions of orthographic complexity, as proposed by Daniels and Share (2018)
Jialin Lai, Juan F. Quinonez‐Beltran, R. Malatesha Joshi   +2 more
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Azeb Amha, Maarten Mous, Graziano Sava (eds), Omotic and Cushitic Language Studies, Papers from the Fourth Cushitic-Omotic Conference, Leiden, 10-12 April 2003 (review)

Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2007
Review of Azeb Amha, Maarten Mous, Graziano Sava (eds), Omotic and Cushitic Language Studies, Papers from the Fourth Cushitic-Omotic Conference, Leiden, 10-12 April 2003, Köln, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2007, 268 pp.
Stanisław Piłaszewicz
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Mora augmentation in Lowland East Cushitic: implications for typology and studies of metrification

Linguistics
Moras play an important role in Lowland East Cushitic tone/accent assignment, but their contributions elsewhere in these languages’ grammars are not well established.
Green Christopher R., Cunia Aline
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Ideophones in Kambaata (Cushitic): Grammar, meaning and use

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
In the literature on Cushitic languages, ideophones have often only been treated in a cursory manner. A little explored problem of the synchronic analysis concerns their word class status: do they constitute a word class on their own, or should they be ...
Yvonne Treis
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How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study [PDF]

, 2008
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voiced but not voiceless alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of front coronals.
Fuchs, Susanne, Hamann, Silke
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