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Roots and patterns in Beja (Cushitic): the issue of language contact with Arabic [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
wiley   +1 more source

Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022

open access: yesAethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022.
Magdalena Krzyżanowska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rethinking one`s own culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
African people reflecting on their own situation will frequently find themselves in a dilemma to identify with western and traditional values. A case study of the Burji (Ethiopia and Kenya) examplifies this.
Amborn, Hermann, Marcus, H. G.
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Semisupervised Learning‐Based Word‐Sense Disambiguation Using Word Embedding for Afaan Oromoo Language

open access: yesApplied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Natural language is a type of language that human beings use to communicate with each other. However, it is very difficult to communicate with a machine‐understandable language. Finding context meaning is challenging the activity of automatically identifying machine translation, indexing engines, and predicting neighbor words in natural language.
Tabor Wegi Geleta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXI: 2017

open access: yesAethiopica, 2019
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXI ...
Maria Bulakh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Martino’s Fragments: a personal library and its emblematic story

open access: yesBibliothecae.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
doaj   +1 more source

How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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The consonant inventory of Proto-Eastern Cushitic

open access: yesStudies 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
doaj   +3 more sources

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