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Verbal predication negation in Dawurotsuwa

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This paper presents an analysis of the verbal negation of declarative main clauses in Dawurotsuwa. This study aims to describe verbal negation in Dawurotsuwa, a language that is scarcely described.
Aklilu Abera Naba
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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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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022

Aethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVI: 2022.
Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Karin Ghion-Hamadu, Maria Bulakh   +2 more
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Dawit Bekele, Lexical Study of Dawuro

Aethiopica, 2019
Review
Yvonne Treis
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.
Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Switch-reference and Omotic-Cushitic Language Contact in Southwest Ethiopia [PDF]

Journal of Language Contact, 2012
Africa has up until now been considered a continent where switch-reference systems are extremely rare. This study shows that there is a confined area in the South of Ethiopia where many Omotic languages and a few Cushitic languages have fully grammaticalised switch-reference systems on dependent (co-)subordinate non-final verbs, so-called converbs. The
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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVIII: 2024

Aethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVIII: 2024 
Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Maria Bulakh, Karin Ghion-Hamadu, Timur Miftyakhov   +3 more
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Azeb Amha, Maarten Mous, Graziano Sava (eds), Omotic and Cushitic Language Studies, Papers from the Fourth Cushitic-Omotic Conference, Leiden, 10-12 April 2003 (review)

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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Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII: 2023

Aethiopica
Bibliography of Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics XXVII ...
Magdalena Krzyżanowska, Maria Bulakh, Karin Ghion-Hamadu   +2 more
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A matter of honour: Speaking Hozo (Ak’mo Wandi), an endangered language in western Ethiopia

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2022
This article is concerned with Hozo, a minority language spoken in western Ethiopia, and its speakers. Today, the use of Hozo, which belongs to the Mao branch of the Omotic languages, is declining rapidly.
Sophie Küspert-Rakotondrainy, Klaus-Christian Küspert   +1 more
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