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Questions of Egyptian Historical Phonology and Afro-Asiatic [PDF]
, 2015 The new monograph on Egyptian historical grammar by J. P. Allen appeared merely some two decades after A. Loprieno’s (1995) book with similar scope and aims.
Takács, Gábor
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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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A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia
Studies in African Linguistics, 2000 The article provides a grammatical sketch of Ongota, a language on the brink of extinction (actively used by eight out of an ethnic group of nearly one hundred) spoken in the South Omo Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia.
Graziano Savà, Mauro Tosco
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Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa [PDF]
, 2013 The history of southern Africa involved interactions between indigenous hunter-gatherers and a range of populations that moved into the region. Here we use genome-wide genetic data to show that there are at least two admixture events in the history of ...
Berger, Bonnie +7 more
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The Beja Language Today in Sudan: The State of the Art in Linguistics [PDF]
, 2006 This article gives an overview of the main literature available on the Beja language (Cushitic branch of Afro-Asiatic) in different linguistic domains: grammatical descriptions, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, phonetics, grammaticalization ...
Vanhove, Martine
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Folia OrientaliaThe 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
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Sara Petrollino, A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic Language of Ethiopia
Aethiopica, 2020 Review
Ronny Meyer
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Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon VI: Numerals [PDF]
, 2015 The first part of my series „Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon” re-examined the controversies of P. Lacau’s old observation on a binary opposition of certain items of the Ancient Egyptian anatomical terminology in the context of many new results ...
Takács, Gábor
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Nominal suffixes as markers of information structure in Basketo
Studies in African Languages and Cultures, 2020 This paper deals with the information function of two nominal suffixes, -i appearing in all nouns, and -n- in first- and second-person pronouns in Basketo, a North Omotic language predominantly spoken in the Basketo Special Woreda in Ethiopia.
Hideyuki Inui
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