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Questions of Egyptian Historical Phonology and Afro-Asiatic [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Language policy in Ethiopia in the 20th century

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2001
The languages spoken in Ethiopia belong to four linguistic families: Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan, and the speakers of each of these families found themselves within the borders of this state at various times in history and for various ...
Ewa Wołk
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Some Berber Etymologies XI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
My series „Some Berber Etymologies” is to gradually reveal the still unknown immense Afro-Asiatic heritage in the Berber lexical stock. The first part with some miscellaneous Berber etymologies was published back in 1996. Recently, I continued the series
Takács, Gábor
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Polysemous agent nominals in Kambaata (Cushitic) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
International audienceKambaata has a morpheme -aan with which agent nominals can be derived from verbs and nouns. The present article discusses, firstly, the morphological and syntactic characteristics of -aan nominals and the specific problem of which ...
Treis, Yvonne
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Negation in Highland East Cushitic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Highland East Cushitic (HEC) is a small group of five closely related languages and their dialects in Southern Ethiopia, in which not less than eight non-cognate negative morphemes are attested.
Treis, Yvonne
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The Zagwē dynasty. A study in historical possibilities

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 1988
After the collapse of Aksum, the centre of the empire twice moved further south. On the first occasion, according to tradition at the end of the 10th century, it was established in the Lasta region on the border between the present-day provinces of ...
Ewa Woźniakowska
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Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXVII [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
During my current work on the Egyptian Etymological Word Catalogue (EEWC, ongoing since summer 1994), it has become possible to identify a great number of new lexical correspondences between Egyptian and its vast Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) kindred ...
Takács, Gábor
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Ancient west Eurasian ancestry in southern and eastern Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Layers of the Oldest Egyptian Lexicon I [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The paper re-examines the controversies of P. Lacau’s old observation on a binary opposition of the anatomical terminology of Ancient Egyptian in the context of many new results issuing from current progress in Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) comparative ...
Takács, Gábor
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The Beja Language Today in Sudan: The State of the Art in Linguistics [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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