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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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An Excerpt from the ‘Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Natural Phenomena, Time and Geographical Terminology’

Folia Orientalia
The contribution summarises the Beja lexicon connected with natural phenomena, including astronomical, temporal, and geographical terminology. Every lexeme is documented in available sources and etymologized in areal or genealogical perspectives.
Václav Blažek
doaj   +1 more source

Impersonal Passive in Mesqan: a South Ethio-Semitic Language Spoken in Ethiopia

Macrolinguistics, 2016
Abyssinia Journal of Business and Social Sciences , Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)
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Points of Contact [PDF]

, 2021
In the first few centuries of Islam, Middle Eastern Christians, Muslims, and Jews alike all faced the challenges of preserving their holy texts in the midst of a changing religious landscape.
Posegay, Nick
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The biradical origin of semitic roots [PDF]

, 2007
textMany scholars who have worked on reconstructing Proto-Semitic postulate that the original forms of the Semitic roots consisted of three radicals, with the occurrence of the infrequent biradical and quadriradical roots needing explanation ...
Hecker, Bernice Varjick, 1935-
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The Semitic Sibilants: Correspondences and Discrepancies

, 2023
This research focuses on sibilant problems and irregularities in Semitic languages in the context of a general survey of the Semitic sibilants. It also investigates the issue of irregular sibilant correspondences of the sounds traditionally denoted by , ,
Schneider, Roey
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Theoretical issues in comparative Ethio-Semitic phonology and morphology

, 1997
This thesis explores three fundamental issues in the phonology and morphology of Ethiopian Semitic languages: mobile morphology, reduplication and epenthesis.
Rose, Sharon, 1965-
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Between typology and diachrony : some formal parallels in Hebrew and Maltese [PDF]

, 2007
Hebrew and Maltese are obliquely related members of the Semitic language family. Past comparative research inspired by Bible translation highlighted in atomistic fashion a number of common traits in these two languages.
Borg, Alexander
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Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages 5-7 August 2012 in Kivik, Sweden

, 2014
This book is the outcome of the International Symposium on Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Kivik, Sweden, 5-7 August 2012. A strong incentive for the symposium was the renewed interest, in recent years, in the nature of non-main clause linking ...
Isaksson, Bo,, Persson, Maria,
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Gə’əz revival from Aksumite abugida to digital and decolonial scholarship in the twenty-first century

Discover Global Society
Gə’əz, the classical Ethio-Semitic language of Aksum and the liturgical cornerstone of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, has transitioned from a state of nineteenth-century scholarly neglect and sacred confinement to a dynamic twenty-first-century revival.
Dawit Dibekulu, Ayenew Guadu, Tibebu Anteneh   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source