A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia
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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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
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Sara Petrollino, A Grammar of Hamar: A South Omotic Language of Ethiopia
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Ronny Meyer
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Nominal suffixes as markers of information structure in Basketo
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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Natural Language Processing and Its Challenges on Omotic Language Group of Ethiopia
This article reviews Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its challenge on Omotic language groups. All technological achievements are partially fuelled by the recent developments in NLP.
Bade, Girma Yohannis
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Joachim Crass - Ronny Meyer (eds.): Deictics, Copula and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area
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Mauro Tosco
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Signatures of Convergent Evolution and Natural Selection at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Region are Correlated with Agriculture in Ethnically Diverse Africans. [PDF]
McQuillan MA +7 more
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Whole genome sequencing reveals population diversity and variation in HIV-1 specific host genes. [PDF]
Thami PK +6 more
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Omotic lexicon in its Afro-Asiatic setting VI: Addenda to Omotic roots with *ḅ-, *ṗ-, *p- (or *f-) a
Abstract The paper is a new contribution to revealing the Afro-Asiatic heritage in the lexicon of the Omotic languages by means of interbranch comparison using a.o. the ancient Egypto-Semitic evidence.
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A revolt broke out in Wolaitta, Southern Ethiopia, in 1999-2000, about the language to be taught in schools. Led by teachers, students and distinguished local personalities, it immediately involved the whole population, without distinction of class ...
Pierre Guidi
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