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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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The grammatical primacy of tone in Cushitic
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2021 The current dimensions in the typology of tone are not insightful for understanding the properties of tone in Cushitic languages. Some Cushitic languages are characterised as “pitch-accent” and these cannot be considered stress languages because the ...
Mous, Maarten
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Dentality areal features and phonological change in northeastern Bantu
Studies in African Linguistics, 1985 A minority of the world's languages appear to have a series of dental (as opposed to alveolar) obstruents. Proto-Bantu does not have such a series, nor do most East African Bantu languages.
Derek Nurse
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Genetic relationship and the case of Ma'a Mbugu
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 This paper addresses the general question of genetic vs. nongenetic language development, in the context of a structural and historical discussion of Ma'a (Mbugu), a language with Cushitic basic vocabulary that is spoken in Tanzania.
Sarah G. Thomason
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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 Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]
, 2009 Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi +61 more
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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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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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Discourse organization in Gorwaa narratives: An exploratory overview
Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2021 There are many ways in which a story can be told, and languages throughout time and across the world have developed strategies that work in tandem with their respective linguistic structure to create organized, coherent narratives.
Clemens J. Mayer
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