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Author: Girma A. Demeke
Publisher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
Published: 2013-03
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781569023792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The first edition of this book was published first in 2009 in Addis Ababa by the French Center for Ethiopian Studies and later in the same year (with minor editing) in Germany by LINCOM Europa Academic publishers."--Preface.
Author: Wolf Leslau
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 120
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: MENGISTU. TADESSE
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Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781569027448
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book describes the phonological, morphological and lexical variation of Amharic dialects by using both natural oral text and elicited data. In phonetic inventory of Amharic dialects, seventy-six possible consonant segments including three implosives and one velar fricative have been identified from the recorded audio-video corpus. Some of these segments are peculiar to specific areas and some are shared by more dialect areas. The study also shows variations on morphological and lexical levels.
Author: Kenneth Katzner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1134532881
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This third edition of Kenneth Katzner's best-selling guide to languages is essential reading for language enthusiasts everywhere. Written with the non-specialist in mind, its user-friendly style and layout, delightful original passages, and exotic scripts, will continue to fascinate the reader. This new edition has been thoroughly revised to include more languages, more countries, and up-to-date data on populations. Features include: *information on nearly 600 languages *individual descriptions of 200 languages, with sample passages and English translations *concise notes on where each language is spoken, its history, alphabet and pronunciation *coverage of every country in the world, its main language and speaker numbers *an introduction to language families
Author: Ayele Bekerie
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781569020210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A groundbreaking book about the history and principles of Ethiopic (Ge'ez), an African writing system designed as a meaningful and graphic representation of a wide range of knowledge.
Author: Girma A. Demeke
Publisher: Wibtaye Publishers/Institute of Semitic Studies
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780989831307
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-10-17
Total Pages: 780
ISBN-13: 9004359540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.
Author: Stefan Weninger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-12-23
Total Pages: 1298
ISBN-13: 3110251582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.
Author: Pietro Toggia
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 131798207X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The writings in this edition explore historical and contemporary issues in Ethiopia as the country underwent change and celebrated its new millennium. However, despite the recognizance of socio-economic and political changes, Ethiopia still faces enduring problems and challenges to its stability and continuity. The political past haunts the country while it is facing the future with optimism and hope. The contributors in this edition examine historical and contemporaneous issues with different lenses; they investigate the multiplicity and complexity of the contradictions that define traditional and modern Ethiopia. The contributions highlight the significance of the instability, dislocation, conflict and transformation inherent in any society. None of these writings, however, celebrate the forces that create the conflict; they are cautious not to glorify the present and romanticize the past. On the contrary, they seek to contextualize the challenges which the country faces with a view to open a dialogue, not exclusively among Ethiopians, but with scholars and social activists in the rest of Africa, as well as the international community. The contributions cover and examine such important topics as historiography, political power and legitimacy, ideology and radical views, knowledge transmission and modernity, emigration and the Ethiopian Diaspora, ethnic and linguistic identity, patriarchy and feminist discourses in a traditional society, public policies and economic development, traditional and modern art and culture, and neo-liberalism and globalization. This book was published as a special issue of African Identities.
