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Ahland, Michael Bryan – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Northern Mao is an endangered Afroasiatic-Omotic language of western Ethiopia with fewer than 5,000 speakers. This study is a comprehensive grammar of the language, written from a functional/typological perspective which embraces historical change as an explanation for synchronic structure. The grammar introduces the Northern Mao people, aspects…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Afro Asiatic Languages, Grammar, Cultural Influences
Ahland, Colleen Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Gumuz is a Nilo-Saharan dialect cluster spoken in the river valleys of northwestern Ethiopia and the southeastern part of the Republic of the Sudan. There are approximately 200,000 speakers, the majority of which reside in Ethiopia. This study is a phonological and grammatical analysis of two main dialects/languages: Northern Gumuz and Southern…
Descriptors: African Languages, Nouns, Language Research, Form Classes (Languages)
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Bliese, Loren F. – Anthropological Linguistics, 1975
The formation of plurals in the three classes of nouns in 'Afar is discussed, as well as vowel changes in particular environments. (SC)
Descriptors: African Languages, Descriptive Linguistics, Generative Phonology, Morphology (Languages)