Download or read book Grammatical and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Ethiopian Languages written by Derib Ado and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this unique publication is on Ethiopian languages and linguistics. Not only major languages such as Amharic and Oromo receive attention, but also lesser studied ones like Sezo and Nuer are dealt with. The Gurage languages, that often present a descriptive and sociolinguistic puzzle to researchers, have received ample coverage. And for the first time in the history of Ethiopian linguistics, two chapters are dedicated to descriptive studies of Ethiopian Sign Language, as well as two studies on acoustic phonetics. Topics range over a wide spectrum of issues covering the lexicon, sociolinguistics, socio-cultural aspects and micro-linguistic studies on the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ethiopian languages.
Download or read book A Grammar of Mursi written by Firew Girma Worku and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 14 descriptive chapters and a collection of 4 transcribed texts in Mursi, a highly endangered language spoken in the Lower Omo Valley in Ethiopia.
Download or read book The Essential Guide to Amharic The National Language of Ethiopia written by MR Abraham Teklu and published by Peace Corps Writers. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to Amharic is a 150+ pages of grammar, phrases, and vocabulary for the national language of Ethiopia. All translations are spelled phonetically, as well as in the Amharic alphabet. The vocabulary section is organized by topic; greetings, foods, furniture, politics, occupations etc. There are over 200 verb definitions with simple conjugation. The grammar section includes in-depth information on how to conjugate verbs in the past, present and future; using adjectives, pluralizing words, asking questions, punctuation, and much more.
Download or read book Language in Ethiopia written by Marvin Lionel Bender and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study is the result of research by an interdisciplinary team of international scholars, all with a particular interest in Ethiopia. The first part of the book contains an important classification of Ethiopian languages, looks at their distribution and studies some special language situations. The second part describes the official status of languages, the effects of migrations, urbanization and education, and discusses the spread of Amharic and patterns of bilingualism. The third part analyses in detail the organization of language teaching and teacher training in Ethiopia.
Download or read book The Origin of Amharic written by Girma A. Demeke and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book The Algerian Dream written by Andrew Farrand and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few outsiders have had the privilege to get to know Algeria and its youth so intimately-or to observe firsthand this pivotal chapter in the nation's history. It's a story that reveals much about the relationship between citizens and leaders, about the sanctity of human dignity, and about the power of dreams and the courage to pursue them. Nearly two-thirds of Algeria's population is under the age of 35. Growing up during or soon after the violent conflict that wracked Algeria during the 1990's, and amid the powerful influences of global online culture, this generation views the world much differently than their parents or grandparents do. The Algerian Dream: Youth and the Quest for Dignity invites readers to discover this generation, their hopes for the future and, most significantly, the frustrations that have brought them into the streets en masse since 2019, peacefully challenging a long-established order. After seven years living and working alongside these young people across Algeria, Andrew G. Farrand shares his insights on what makes the next generation tick in North Africa's sleeping giant.
Download or read book The Languages of the World written by Kenneth Katzner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Concise Amharic Dictionary written by Wolf Leslau and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A language learning book that has taught and will continue to teach generations of Peace Corps volunteers, and other English-speaking students, workers, and visitors to Ethiopia."—Harold G. Marcus, author of A History of Ethiopia
Download or read book Ethiopian Semitic Studies in Classification written by Robert Hetzron and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethiopic an African Writing System written by Ayele Bekerie and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Globally Speaking written by Judith Rosenhouse and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume accounts for the motives for contemporary lexical borrowing from English, using a comparative approach and a broad cross-cultural perspective. It investigates the processes involved in the penetration of English vocabulary into new environments and the extent of their integration into twelve languages representing several language families, including Icelandic, Dutch, French, Russian, Hungarian, Hebrew, Arabic, Amharic, Persian, Japanese, Taiwan Chinese, and several languages spoken in southern India. Some of these languages are studied here in the context of borrowing for the first time ever. All in all, this volume suggests that the English lexical 'invasion', as it is often referred to, is a natural and inevitable process. It is driven by psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic, and socio-historical factors, of which the primary determinants of variability are associated with ethnic and linguistic diversity.
Download or read book Jamaican Speech Forms in Ethiopia written by Rosanna Masiola and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic cross-disciplinary survey on the use of Jamaican English in Ethiopia, describing the dynamics of language acquisition in a multi-lectal and multicultural context. It is the result of over eight years’ worth of research conducted in both Jamaica and Africa, and is a recognition of the trans-cultural influence of the “Repatriation Movement” and other diasporic movements. The method and materials adopted in this book point to a constant spread and diffusion of Jamaican culture in Ethiopia. This is reinforced by the universalistic appeal of Rastafarianism and Reggae music and their ability to transcend borders. The data gathered here focus on how an Anglophone-based Creole has developed new speech-forms and has been hybridized and cross-fertilized in contact situations and by new media sources. The book focuses on the use of Jamaican English in four particular domains: namely, school, street, family, and the music studio. Its findings are drawn from an exceptional range of sources, such as field-work and video-recordings, interviews, web-mediated communication, artistic performance and relevant transcriptions. These sources highlight five topics of relevance—language acquisition and choice; English and Jamaican speech forms; hegemonic and minority groups, Rastafarian culture and Reggae music—which are explored in further detail throughout the book. These salient features, in turn, interface with the dynamics of influencing factors, reinforcing circumstances, significance and change. The book represents a journey to the “extreme-outer circle” of English language use, following a circular route away from Africa and back again, with all the languages used (and lost) along the slavery route and inside the plantation complex developing into creolized speech forms and Creoles. Such language use is now making its way back to Africa, with all the incendiary creativity of Reggae and resonant with Rastafarian language.
Download or read book Afan Oromo written by Abebe Bulto and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 200 pages of essential vocabulary, common phrases, grammar, and verb conjugations for the Afan Oromo (Oromiffa) language. Written from the perspective of a native English speaker - useful for anyone visiting or working in Ethiopia's Oromia region. A great tool for Oromo-Ethiopian diaspora to teach children their native tongue.
Download or read book Language Policy of Education and National Identity in Ethiopia written by Yirgalem Alemu and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, , language: English, abstract: This work has attempted to give an overview of how the language policy of the different regimes in Ethiopia has contributed to the sense of national identity. Although language is not the only factor that consolidates or weakens national identity, it plays a significant role. It is with this mine that the book is written. Different language-related policies and documents of the imperial, military and EPRDF regimes were closely investigated. Sections and statements in the policy pertaining to language use were considered as units of analysis. Furthermore, empirical and theoretical literature written in areas of language policy and national identity were consulted. The autoher also included his personal experiences as a university instructor and informal meetings held with people in different walks of life. The evidence obtained from the sources mentioned above reflects that the language policy used in Ethiopia is highly polarized: ranging from one language to all to no language to all. That is, the regimes before EPRDF dictate one language to be used as a tool of communication to all Ethiopians. On the other hand, the EPRDF regime emphasized local language and culture without (practically) giving any room for national communication. Both approaches contribute little to national identity formation. This book recommends that Ethiopians need to learn from other multilingual countries about language planning. Ethnocentric thinking that assumes one’s own language as superior to the other’s language should be avoided. Politicians also need to abstain from politicizing language (identity) and using it as a means of mobilizing support. This book recommends that bilingual/ multilingual education contributes a lot to Ethiopian national identity formation.
Download or read book Songs We Learn from Trees written by Chris Beckett and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry.This is the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, packed with all the energy, wit and heartache of a beautiful country and language. From folk and religious poems, warrior boasts, praises of women and kings and modern plumbing; through a flowering of literary poets in the twentieth century; right up to thirty of the most exciting contemporary Amharic poets working both inside and outside the country.These poems ask what it means to be Ethiopian today, part of a young fast-growing economy, heirs to the one African state which was never colonised, but beset by deep political, ethnic and moral problems.
Download or read book Mesob Across America written by Harry Kloman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How old is Ethiopian cuisine and the unique way of eating it? Ethiopians proudly say their cuisine goes back 3,000 to 5,000 years. Archaeologists and historians now believe it emerged in the first millennium A.D. in Aksum, an ancient kingdom that occupied whats now the northern region of Ethiopia and the southern region of neighboring Eritrea. But regardless of when Ethiopians began to eat spicy wots atop the spongy flatbread injera, or when they first drank the intoxicating honey wine called tej, their cuisine remains unique in the world. Mesob Across America: Ethiopian Food in the U.S.A. brings together what respected scholars and passionate Ethiopians know and believe about this delectable cuisine. From the ingredients of the Ethiopian kitchen the foods, the spices, and the ways of combining them to a close-up look at the cuisines history and culture, Mesob Across America is both comprehensive and anecdotal. Explore the history of how restaurant communities emerged in the U.S., and visit them as they exist today. Learn how to prepare a five-course Ethiopian meal, including homemade tej. And solve the mystery of when Ethiopian food made its debut in America which was not when most Ethiopians think it did.
Download or read book Proposed Language Reform for Ethiopia written by Lou Tm Kahssay and published by Proposed Language Reform for E. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes, this groundbreaking book is unparalleled in its insight into the Ethiopic grammatical and orthographic problems that have hindered the progress of the Ethiopian society, and its approach to presenting comprehensive reform ideas to tackle the problems. Written primarily for policy makers, this is the ultimate language material for anyone interested in the protection and development of Ethiopian languages. By focusing on Tigirinya and Amharic, the two most popular Ethio Semitic languages, the book aims to set an example for the reform of other Ethiopian languages, including the Ethio-Cushitic languages, to respond to the nation's 21st-century communication needs. After decades of neglect and mandatory use of English as the medium of instruction in the Ethiopian school system, Ethiopian languages are decimated to the point of almost becoming irrelevant for the complex communication needs of a modern society. As Ethiopia strives to use technology to develop its industrial base and leapfrog into a modern industrialized society, it urgently needs to implement reform of its languages without further delay.The major reforms proposed in this book, which number more than a dozen, cover grammar, orthography, and other things related to Ethiopic, such as a standard Ethiopic computer keyboard. The proposed reform of the Ethiopic script, which is a major component of the proposed orthographic reforms for Ethiopia, contrasts with the last major reform of the script during the reign of King Ezana almost 1700 years ago. Although there were some modern-day proposals for the reform of the script in the last hundred years, none were ever implemented nor was any one of them as comprehensive or as scientifically sound as the reforms proposed in this book. Researched and conceived by taking into account the opportunities and challenges provided by globalization and 21st-century technological innovations, many of the reform ideas are unique and unprecedented in the history of the Ethiopian languages. The decision to implement the proposed language reform will be made by policy makers and the Ethiopian society. However, as expounded in the book, every delay since the first effort to reform Ethiopic more than a century ago has cost society enormously. Now is the time to act for the sake of a modern and prosperous Ethiopia that will not only survive but thrive in a fast-changing modern world.
