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The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic

Studies in African Linguistics, 1991
Hans-Jiirgen Sasse established a solid initial reconstruction of the proto-Eastern Cushitic (PEC) consonants. This initial system had about 20 to 23 consonants. Further work by Linda Arvanites indicated the existence of several additional consonants. The
Christopher Ehret
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The Middle in Cushitic Languages

Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2001
Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Afroasiatic Languages (2001)
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023

Aethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII ...
Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Maria Bulakh, Karin Ghion-Hamadu   +2 more
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Expressing Future Time Reference in Kambaata

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2011
Kambaata (Highland East Cushitic) is an aspect-marking language with a prominent opposition between perfective and imperfective aspect. The absolute location of an event in time (tense) is expressed by devices other than verbal inflection or inferred ...
Yvonne Treis
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Beja Kinship and Social Terminology

Folia Orientalia
The contribution concentrates on the kinship terminology in Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch of Afroasiatic languages. The first aim is a summarisation of all relevant lexical data including all dialects and from all available ...
Václav Blažek
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On the verbal system in Langi a Bantu language of Tanzania

Studies in African Linguistics, 2004
This paper presents the Langi verbal system and the various ways in which tense, aspect and mood are encoded. Through a description of the structures and uses of the various forms, it attempts to demonstrate how the different conjugations fit together to
Margaret Dunham
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Instability of interactives: The case of interjections in Gorwaa

Open Linguistics
This article studies the morpho-phonetic instability of interactives through the example of Gorwaa interjections. The analysis of 91 constructions demonstrates that, in Gorwaa, interjections are highly unstable: the number of idiolectal interjections is ...
Andrason Alexander, Harvey Andrew
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Subject clitics in Konso

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2016
In Konso (Cushitic, Ethiopia), a sentence contains an inflectional element separate from the verb. This is in essence a subject clitic and a sentence type indicator.
Ongaye O. Orkaydo, Maarten Mous
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Signatures of Convergent Evolution and Natural Selection at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Region are Correlated with Agriculture in Ethnically Diverse Africans. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol, 2022
McQuillan MA, Ranciaro A, Hansen MEB, Fan S, Beggs W, Belay G, Woldemeskel D, Tishkoff SA.   +7 more
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An Excerpt from the Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Anatomical Lexicon

Folia Orientalia
The present study summarizes the anatomic lexicon of Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch according to all relevant sources published during last two centuries.
Václav Blažek
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