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| | Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Leo Reinisch (1909) proposed to link Cushitic and Chadic, while urging a more distant affinity with Egyptian and Semitic, thus foreshadowing Greenberg; but his suggestion was largely ignored. | | | s-m "name" (Ehret: *sŭm / *sĭm), attested in Semitic (*sm), Berber (ism), Chadic (eg Hausa suna), Cushitic, and Omotic (though the Berber form, ism, and the Omotic form, sunts, are sometimes argued to be Semitic loanwords.) The Egyptian smi "report, announce" may also be cognate. | | | d-m "blood" (Ehret: *dîm / *dâm), attested in Berber (idammen), Semitic (*dam), Chadic, and arguably Omotic. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages
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| | Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Peoples ~a HREF="/et_00_00.html#et_02_04" |
| | Nevertheless, Amharic remained the language of government, and anyone who aspired to a national role had to learn to speak and write Amharic. | | | The Amhara are not a cohesive group, politically or otherwise. | | | (Many more live in neighboring Sudan.) Their language is influenced by Arabic, and the Beja have come to claim Arab descent since their conversion to Islam. |
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/etsave/et_02_04.html
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| | Ethnologue: Introduction to the Printed Volume |
| | An ethnic group, however, may be made up of several groups speaking several languages, or the mother-tongue speakers of a single language may be members of several different ethnic groups. | | | Continent maps and a world map are given to help orient the reader to the location of specific countries and continents. | | | Some sources count members of ethnic groups, whose membership does not always correspond on a one-to-one basis with speakers of languages. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/introduction.asp
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| | Omotic, in my Leiden oratie The Classification of Chadic within >Afroasiatic, which dates from 1980 (!) -- can't believe that it is that >long ago -- I threw in a footnote in which, without evidence of any sort, >I raised expressed doubt whether one should include Omotic within >Afroasiatic. | | | Woudhuizen (the author of 'The Language of the Sea Peoples' and of 'Linguistica Tyrrhenica I') has now published: 'Linguistica Tyrrhenica II: The Etruscan Liturgical Calendar from Capua, Addenda and corrigenda ad volumen I', in which he further explores the relationship of Etruscan with the Indo-European languages of Asia Minor. | | | Merrit Ruhlen, in his "Classification of the World's Languages" mentions that Paul Newman excludes Omotic from Afro-Asiatic. |
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http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n148
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| | FORWARD : Arts & Letters |
| | Meanwhile, however, it began to be clear that Semitic could not be considered an isolated family in itself. | | | The fact that there were connections between Semitic and ancient Egyptian had long been recognized, and starting with the 1960s, scholars of certain non-Semitic African languages began to point out an increasing number of resemblances between them and the Semitic group as well. | | | Rabin maintained, the Semitic "family" consisted of a group of originally unrelated languages that came to resemble each other because their speakers lived in close proximity for thousands of years. |
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http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.03.23/arts5.html
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| | SILESR 2002-053 Summary |
| | This report presents findings from a survey of the Sheko, Nayi (Na'o), and Yem Districts. | | | The field work was carried out from December 7 to 17, 1993. | | | This report mainly contains the evaluation of the answers to the sociolinguistic questionnaires and word lists of Yemsa and the Yemsa languages Fofa and Toba. |
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http://www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-053
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| | Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic. | | | Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been largely abandoned; the Omotic languages are now considered an isolated branch of Afro-Asiatic. | | | Richard Hayward, on the other hand, breaks up East Cushitic into three well-supported families: Sidamic or Highlands, a diverse Lowlands family (with Afar, Somalic, and Oromic subgroups), and Dullay (he apparently leaves Yaaku unclassified), that he believes should be considered separately when attempting to work out the internal relationships of Cushitic. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushitic_languages
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| | Imperial Ethiopia - Ethiopian Languages |
| | In multi-ethnic nations such as Ethiopia, the use of an "official" language is sometimes criticised on the basis of its representing only a certain part of the population, with the minority populations reacting against the dominance of a foreign tongue. | | | Amharic has long been the dominant language, but Ethiopia itself was always a conglomeration of peoples. | | | English is the most widely spoken foreign language. |
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http://www.imperialethiopia.org/languages.htm
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| | Cushitic Branch |
| | All the remaining languages have populations of under 100,000 speakers, and some of them are small enough to be endangered or on the brink of extinction. | | | Their tonal system is different from other tonal languages, such as Chinese, in which every word is associated with a particular tone. | | | Their tonal system is different from other tonal languages such as Chineses in which every word is associated with a particular tone. |
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http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/july/cushtic.html
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| | LINGUIST List 10.1836: Australian, Omotic, & Tasmanian Langs |
| | At the time of discovery a dark race was found to be living there in a pre-industrial civilisation and a century later in 1877 the last of the full-blood Tasmanians died. | | | In the attempt to identify the language origin the following major questions are to be answered: 1) was the Tasmanian native tongue a unique language on its own and with the death of the last Tasmanian speaker did it pass into oblivion leaving no connection with the outside world whatsoever? | | | Fortunately a good deal of their language became recorded which makes its study possible by language comparison. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/10/10-1836.html
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| | Ethnologue report for Ethiopia |
| | Dialects: Hamer and Banna are separate ethnic groups who speak virtually the same language. | | | Ethnic population: 1,631 of whom 1,519 (93%) speak Amharic as first language, others speak other first languages. | | | The Language Academy said it should be considered a separate speech variety. |
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http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Ethiopia
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| | Afro-Asiatic languages |
| | All languages except the Semitic ones were lumped together as Hamitic. | | | The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL. | | | The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family widespread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia. |
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http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Hamitic_languages.html
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| | July - The Afro-Asiatic language family (Berber, Chadic, Cushtic, and Omotic languages) |
| | It constitutes a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, along with Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Semitic branches... | | | July - The Afro-Asiatic language family (Berber, Chadic, Cushtic/Omotic and Egyptian languages) | | | - Oromo, also called Afaan Oromo and Oromiffa, is a Cushitic language spoken in most parts of Ethiopia and northern parts of Kenya... |
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http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/july
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| | HEC refs |
| | Gogot, YaGurage Beherasab Tarik: Bahelenna K'wank'wa [Gogot: History of a Gurage Society: Culture and Language (in Amharic)]. | | | Highland East Cushitic (HEC) is a group of Afroasiatic Eastern Cushitic languages spoken by peoples numbering several million in south-central Ethiopia. | | | If you know of publications on these languages which should be included, please let me know at hudson@msu.edu. |
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http://www.msu.edu/~hudson/HECrefs.htm
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| | Ethiopic Ordered List |
| | This seems unlikely for an Omotic language and may represent an error in the document or different symbology choices for the same phonemes. | | | The sequence was periodically promoted for use in other languages (Amharic and Tigrigna) evidence of its use in collation or in ordered list would be hard to come by were it ever employed outside of Ge'ez. | | | Additional information on Ethiopic collation can be found here. |
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http://www.geez.org/Collation/OrderedLists.html
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| | African Languages: Berber Languages |
| | Although this area is interspersed with large Arabic-speaking regions, speakers of the various Berber languages make up around 50% of the population in Morocco, and about 25% in Algeria. | | | languages and old Egyptian, belongs to the phylum of Afro-Asiatic (formerly: Hamito-Semitic) languages. |
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http://www.koeppe.de/html/e_berber.htm
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| | SILESR Country Index |
| | A Summary Report on the Sociolinguistic Survey of the Sehwi Language | | | Sociolinguistic Survey Report for the Jooré, or "Zaoré" Language | | | Sociolinguistic Survey Report for the Vigué (Viemo) Language |
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http://www.sil.org/silesr/indexes/countries.asp
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| | Rishon Rishon |
| | The result, I think, would be an entropy graph of linguistic features: each time a native feature is replaced by a foreign feature we could say that the native feature is at a higher energy level than the foreign feature that replaced it. | | | It would be fascinating to study the language of expats from a large variety of linguistic backgrounds, immersed in a wide variety of foreign languages, and make a of table of features "unnaturally" borrowed into their native languages, and the features that are replaced. | | | I got to thinking about these things again after reading the first two installments of Amritas's latest series, on the role of grammar in historical linguistics. |
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http://www.rishon-rishon.com
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| | 1993-94 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP ANNUAL REPORT |
| | Individuals from a number of institutions in the United States and Europe have expressed interest in using the system both as a reference tool and in the context of on-going linguistic fieldwork (specifically the southern-most extension of Cushitic in Tanzania). | | | A project of similar nature in Berkeley and Lyons, covering the hundreds of Bantu languages in Africa, had independently set similar goals (updatable multi-user, multi-platform electronic etymological database) and means (commercially available micro-computer-accessible database managing system), and are investigating how much of the architecture and programs of CUSHLEX can be adapted to their situation. | | | Work this year has centered on using the database's cognate sets to infer and register the correspondence sets and sound changes ("sound laws"), which recapitulate the historical evolution of the language family. |
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http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/93-94/93-94_Ind_Gragg.html
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| | LINGUIST List 13.3307: Semantics&Pragmatics/Cushitic&Omotic Langs |
| | of African Languages and Cultures, Leiden University, P.O.Box 9515, NL-2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands This announcement and other information as it becomes available can also be found at the web page: http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/tca/atk/Cush-Om_WebPage.htm Leiden is very close (20 minutes train) to Schiphol, Amsterdam International Airport. | | | More than seven years passed since the last Cushitic-Omotic Conference was held in Berlin in 1994. | | | The meeting in Berlin was the third one of a series started in 1986 with the 1st Cushitic-Omotic Conference held in Cologne/Bonn and continued in Torino in 1990. |
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http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/linguist/issues/13/13-3307.html
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| | Omotic languages |
| | Whether the old Cushitic language family should be split in two is still controversial. | | | Here the Japanese potency of something half concealed to stimulate the imagination, but it favorite war hero and then to bury it. | | | Omotic and Cushitic are types of Afro-Asiatic languages spoken in northeast Africa. |
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http://www.city-search.org/om/omotic-languages.html
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| | African Languages: Oromo |
| | Oromo belongs to the Cushitic languages among the afro-asiatic language family. | | | 28 million speakers in Ethiopia, Somalia and northern Kenya it is one of the most important languages in Africa, along with Arabic, Swahili and Hausa. | | | Catherine Griefenow-Mewis / Rainer M. Voigt (eds.): Cushitic and Omotic Languages. |
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http://www.koeppe.de/html/e_oro.htm
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| | omotic : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com |
| | 1 definition found omotic - WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) : Omotic n : a group of related languages spoken in a valley of southern Ethiopia; closely related to Cushitic languages [syn: Omotic] | | | omotic : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com |
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http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/Omotic
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