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Central Cushitic

The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, 2020
This chapter describes the Central Cushitic (hereafter CC) language family, one of four branches of Cushitic. CC, traditionally known as Agäw, contains four languages: Awŋi, Bilin, Kemantney, and Xamt’aŋa.
Zelealem Leyew
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Whence and whither, you Cushitic Middle?

Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
The article explores the middle and reflexive verbs in the Cushitic language group (with a focus on East Cushitic) and highlights the pervasiveness of the autobenefactive value in much of East Cushitic.
M. Tosco
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Semitic Names of Reptilia in Their Afro-Asiatic Setting: New Etyma for ‘Snake’ and ‘Lizard’

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
The present etymological study brings arguments for additionally reconstructing two new zoonyms in Proto-Semitic, (1) *ṣar«- ‘a kind of (poisonous?) snake’, which is attested in two of the most archaic Semitic languages, Akkadian and Eblaite, and ...
Václav Blažek, Gábor Takács
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On Somali derived ‘middle’ verbs

Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics
The ‘middle’ derivation in Somali (Lowland East Cushitic, Afroasiatic) has received various labels in the literature, and its exact semantic values are still unclear.
Sabrina Bendjaballah, M. Haiden
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SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS IN AFAAN OROMOO

Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture
Afaan Oromoo, a Lowland East Cushitic language, denotes spatial concepts through demonstratives, adverbs, verbs and adpositions, either alone or accompanied by physical manifestations such as gesture.
E. Garoma
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THE SPATIAL FUNCTION OF DEMONSTRATIVES IN SIDAAMA

Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture
This paper examines the spatial function of demonstratives in Sidaama, a Highland East Cushitic (HEC) language spoken in southern Ethiopia. Spatial deictics are a general term for grammatical elements that indicate various spatial relationships ...
Anbessa Teferra
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ASPECTS OF THE STRUCTURE OF SPATIAL EXPRESSIONS IN KONSO

Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, History and Culture
This paper discusses aspects of the structure of spatial expressions in Konso, a Cushitic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia. Spatial expressions in Konso employ the use of locatives, directionals, and postpositions.
Ongaye Oda Orkaydo
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LOCATION ENCODING ROLE OF SPATIAL PRONOUNS AND NOUNS IN SIDAAMA

THE JOURNAL OF AFROASIATIC LANGUAGES, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
This paper deals with the location encoding function of spatial pronouns and nouns in Sidaama, a Highland East Cushitic (henceforth HEC) language spoken in south-central Ethiopia.
Anbessa Teferra
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The two prefix-conjugations in East Cushitic, East Semitic, and Chadic

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1987
R. Voigt
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Qafar (East Cushitic)

, 2017
R. Hayward
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