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Cushitic loans in South Nilotic revisited

Afrika und Übersee
This article explores lexical contact between Cushitic and Nilotic taking the proposed Cushitic language Proto Baz as point of departure. Proto Baz is a putative East Cushitic language proposed by Heine, Rottland & Vossen (1979), on the basis of words ...
Maarten Mous, Christian Rapold
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Mauro Tosco, A grammar of Gawwada, a Cushitic language of south-west Ethiopia

Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2023
Yvonne Treis
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South Cushitic classification in lexicostatistic perspective

Folia Orientalia, 2019
A purpose of the present study is an evaluation of various models of classification of the South branch of the Cushitic languages. The South Cushitic languages are studied in their narrow sense here, i.e.
Václav Blažek
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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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Discourse organization in Gorwaa narratives: An exploratory overview

Journal of African Languages and Literatures, 2021
There are many ways in which a story can be told, and languages throughout time and across the world have developed strategies that work in tandem with their respective linguistic structure to create organized, coherent narratives.
Clemens J. Mayer
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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]

, 2009
Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi, A. Froment, A. Ranciaro, A. T. Juma, Batini, Behar, Bereir, C. Ehret, C. Wambebe, Campbell, Cann, Cerny, Chen, Coia, Destro-Bisol, F. A. Reed, F. R. Friedlaender, Forster, Forster, Friedlaender, G. Lema, G. S. Pretorius, H. Mortensen, Hassan, J. B. Hirbo, J. H. Moore, J. L. Weber, J.-M. Bodo, Jakobsson, K. Powell, Li, Lind, M. A. Thera, M. Ibrahim, M. J. Kotze, M. W. Smith, O. Doumbo, Parra, Parra, Patin, Patterson, Pritchard, Pritchard, Reed, Reynolds, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, S. A. Omar, S. A. Tishkoff, S. M. Williams, Salas, Scozzari, Semino, Sirugo, Smith, T. B. Nyambo, Tishkoff, Tishkoff, Verdu, Wang, Wood   +61 more
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Pan-Africanism: a contorted delirium or a pseudonationalist paradigm? Revivalist critique [PDF]

, 2013
This essaic-article goes against established conventions that there is anything ethno-cultural (and hence national) about the so-called African tribes.
Albert C., Anthony D. S., Assmann J., Assmann J., Chinweizu I, Chinweizu I., Christopher E., Diop C. A., Diop C. A., Faulkner R. O., Godfrey M, Gray J, Hannah V., Jacquin-Berdal D., Kalopoulos M., Karenga M., Teeter E., Teeter E., Vandier J., William C.   +19 more
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A detective story: emphatics in Mehri [PDF]

, 2010
Until 1970, Ethio-Semitic was believed to be the only Semitic language sub-family in which the main correlate of “emphasis” is glottalization, a feature said at the time to be due to Cushitic influence. Since the work of T.M.
Bellem, A, Watson, JCE
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The genetic and linguistic structures of Abyssinians and their neighbor reveal the historical demographic dynamics and environmental adaptation in the African Horn region

bioRxiv, 2020
The African Horn region that includes the Abyssinian is one of the areas in the world that harbor high human genetic diversity manifesting past intermingling of people of different origins attributed to its geographic immediacy to the middle east and ...
D. Sertse, T. Mersha, J. Habtewold
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Iraqw

The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, 2020
Iraqw is spoken in northern Tanzania and is the largest South Cushitic language, with roughly half a million speakers. The phonological inventory is characterizedby, inter alia, the opposition of short vs.
M. Mous
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