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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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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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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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Gender variation across the Oromo dialects: A corpus‐based study*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 453-495, December 2023., 2023
Abstract This study aims to (1) demonstrate the position of the Oromo gender system in Corbett's (1991) typology of gender; (2) illustrate major syntactic gender variation across the Oromo dialects; (3) identify factors that contributed to the gender variation, and (4) illustrate the morphosyntax of the Oromo gender system.
Tekabe Legesse Feleke, Terje Lohndal
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Exploring the relationships between genetic, linguistic and geographic distances in Bantu‐speaking populations

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 179, Issue 1, Page 104-117, September 2022., 2022
Abstract Objectives The predominance of Bantu languages in sub‐Saharan Africa has sparked a large debate over the processes through which they came to disperse over time and space—the “Bantu expansion.” The overall genetic similarity shown by Bantu‐speaking populations indicates that movement of people occurred too, but the extent of the correlation ...
Miguel González‐Santos, Francesco Montinaro, Rebecca Grollemund, Davide Marnetto, Masharip Atadzhanov, Celia A. May, Nedio Mabunda, Pierre de Maret, Ockie Oosthuizen, Erica Oosthuizen, Cristian Capelli   +10 more
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Large‐scale mitogenome sequencing reveals consecutive expansions of domestic taurine cattle and supports sporadic aurochs introgression

Evolutionary Applications, Volume 15, Issue 4, Page 663-678, April 2022., 2022
Abstract The contribution of domestic cattle in human societies is enormous, making cattle, along with other essential benefits, the economically most important domestic animal in the world today. To expand existing knowledge on cattle domestication and mitogenome diversity, we performed a comprehensive complete mitogenome analysis of the species (802 ...
Vlatka Cubric‐Curik, Dinko Novosel, Vladimir Brajkovic, Omar Rota Stabelli, Stefan Krebs, Johann Sölkner, Dragica Šalamon, Strahil Ristov, Beate Berger, Stamatina Trivizaki, Iosif Bizelis, Maja Ferenčaković, Sophie Rothammer, Elisabeth Kunz, Mojca Simčič, Peter Dovč, Gojko Bunevski, Hysen Bytyqi, Božidarka Marković, Muhamed Brka, Kristaq Kume, Srđan Stojanović, Vasil Nikolov, Natalia Zinovieva, Anna Amanda Schönherz, Bernt Guldbrandtsen, Mato Čačić, Siniša Radović, Preston Miracle, Cristiano Vernesi, Ino Curik, Ivica Medugorac   +31 more
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Equity in ecosystem restoration

Restoration Ecology, Volume 29, Issue 5, July 2021., 2021
The importance of equity has been emphasized in climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation, and ecosystem restoration. However, equity implications are rarely considered explicitly in restoration projects. Although the role of equity has been studied in the context of biodiversity conservation and environmental governance, environmental ...
Harry B. M. Wells, Elijah H. Kirobi, Cadia L. Chen, Leigh A. Winowiecki, Tor‐Gunnar Vågen, Muhammad N. Ahmad, Lindsay C. Stringer, Andrew J. Dougill   +7 more
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Genetic, textual, and archeological evidence of the historical global spread of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.)

Legume Science, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2020., 2020
Abstract Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.) was originally domesticated in sub‐Saharan Africa but is now cultivated on every continent except Antarctica. Utilizing archeological, textual, and genetic resources, the spread of cultivated cowpea has been reconstructed.
Ira A. Herniter, María Muñoz‐Amatriaín, Timothy J. Close   +2 more
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Ensete ventricosum: A Multipurpose Crop against Hunger in Ethiopia

The Scientific World Journal, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020., 2020
Ensete ventricosum is a traditional multipurpose crop mainly used as a staple/co‐staple food for over 20 million people in Ethiopia. Despite this, scientific information about the crop is scarce. Three types of food, viz., Kocho (fermented product from scraped pseudostem and grated corm), Bulla (dehydrated juice), and Amicho (boiled corm) can be ...
Getahun Yemata, Tadashi Takamizo
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