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Gender flip and person marking in Benchnon (North Omotic)

Glossa, 2020
Subject agreement in the North Omotic language Benchnon (Rapold 2006) lacks dedicated person marking, but indirectly indicates person distinctions through asymmetries in the distribution of gender markers.
Matthew Baerman
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Characteristics of Omotic tone Shinasha Borna

Studies in African Linguistics, 1990
The article provides some phonological background and outlines the tonal system of Shinasha (Borna), an isolated North Omotic language of Ethiopia. There are two contrasting tones.
Ashenafi Tesfaye, Klaus Wedekind
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Omotic lexicon in its Afro-Asiatic setting III: Omotic *p- [PDF]

Journal of Language Relationship, 2010
Takacs G. Omotic lexicon in its Afro-Asiatic setting III: Omotic *p- [Электронный ресурс] / G. Takacs// Вопросы языкового родства. - 2012. - № 8. - С. 103-116. - (Вестник РГГУ. Серия "Филологические науки. Языкознание" ; № 16 (96)). - Библиогр.: с. 110-115. - ил.
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The development of subject case marking in Omotic Mao

Studies in African Linguistics, 2019
The Mao subgroup of the Omotic family shows various degrees of development of morphological subject case marking which results from largely internal, but very similar historical pathways across the group.
Michael Ahland
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The evolution of the Mawes Aas’e (Omotic-Mao) pronouns: evidence for Omotic Lineage

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
Abstract Omotic-Mao pronouns have been deeply problematic for reconstruction, leading some scholars to suggest the forms are the result of borrowing or interference. This paper explores new evidence from the participant-reference systems in the four Mao languages (Mawes Aas’e, Ganza, Seezo, and Hoozo) to show that the Mawes Aas’e ...
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M. Lionel Bender: Omotic Lexicon and Phonology

Aethiopica, 2012
Review ATTENTION: Due to copy-right no online publication is provided.
Harold C. Fleming
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXV: 2021

Aethiopica, 2023
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXV: 2021
Maria, Magdalena, Francesca Panini
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIII: 2019

Aethiopica, 2021
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXIII ...
Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel, Francesca Panini   +2 more
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII: 2018

Aethiopica, 2020
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic Linguistics XXII ...
Maria Bulakh, Susanne Hummel, Francesca Panini   +2 more
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A Phonology of Ganza (Gwàmi Nánà)

Linguistic Discovery, 2016
Ganza is a previously undescribed Omotic language of the Mao subgroup, and is the only Omotic language found primarily outside of Ethiopia. This paper presents the results of nearly a year of phonological fieldwork on Ganza in the form of a descriptive ...
Joshua Smolders
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