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Gurage Notes

Africa, 1950
Opening ParagraphThe existence of the country and people of the Gurage in Ethiopia has long been known in Europe from the writings of the Portuguese in the sixteenth century. A few references to the Gurage may also be found in Ludolf's Historia Aethiopica (1681), and Bruce's Travels (vol. iv, pp.
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Gurage: the Last Straw

The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1993
Gurage is a cover-term for a dozen south Ethiopian-Semitic tongues spoken by some half-a-million people in a small and compact area about 70 miles south-southwest of Addis Ababa bounded to the north by the Awash River, to the east by Lake Zway, and to the south and west by the Omo River. Completely surrounded by Cushitic languages, especially Galla and
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Observations on ‘Gurage Notes’

Africa, 1951
In his review-article ‘Gurage Notes’ (Africa, xx, 1950, pp. 335-44) of my Ethiopic Documents: Gurage (1950), Mr. Ullendorff criticizes the method I employed in collecting the material and raises some questions in relation to the grammatical description. Mr.
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Benefactives and malefactives in Gumer (Gurage)

2010
Gumer (West-Gurage, South Ethiosemitic) has three suffixes to mark objects on the verb: ‘primary object’, ‘benefactive’, ‘malefactive/locative/instrumental’. BEN and MAL can occur with every verb to express in a rather broad sense that the event is ‘to one’s benefit’ or ‘to one’s detriment’.
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Traditional institutions of the Gurage people

2017
This chapter focuses on the Sebat Bet Gurage and their traditional institutions of governance. Regarding religion, the Sebat Bet have experienced for centuries co-existence of various faiths, including Christianity, Islam, and traditional belief systems. The centralized nature of the organization of the religious system differs notably from that of the
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