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Journal articles on the topic "Amharic literature"

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Fellman, Jack. "Amharic Cultural Reader (review)." Research in African Literatures 35, no. 1 (2004): 213–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2004.0012.

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Bahrnegash Bellete. "Translating Amharic Poems." Callaloo 33, no. 1 (2010): 58–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.0.0609.

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Bulakh, Maria, and Denis Nosnitsin. "An Old Amharic poem from northern Ethiopia: one more text on condemning glory." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 82, no. 2 (June 2019): 315–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x1900034x.

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AbstractThis article presents a publication and translation (with linguistic and philological commentaries) of a recently discovered piece of Old Amharic poetry, possibly dating to the first half/middle of the seventeenth century. The published text bears the title Märgämä kəbr (“Condemnation of glory”), but its content differs from that of several other Old Amharic poems (not entirely independent from each other) known under the same title. It is only the general idea and the main topics that are shared by all Märgämä kəbr poems: transience of the earthly world, the inevitability of death and of God's judgement, and the necessity of leading a virtuous life. One can thus speak of Märgämä kəbr as a special genre of early Amharic literature, probably originally belonging to the domain of oral literature and used to address the Christian community with the aim of religious education and admonition of laymen.
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Olani, Ararso Baru, Tariku Bekelcho, Asfawosen Woldemeskel, Kibreyesus Tefera, and Degefe Eyob. "Evaluation of the Amharic version of the London measure of unplanned pregnancy in Ethiopia." PLOS ONE 17, no. 6 (June 13, 2022): e0269781. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269781.

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Background Unplanned pregnancy is an important public health problem in both the developing and developed world, as it may cause adverse social and health outcomes for mothers, children, and families as a whole. London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) has been formally and informally validated in multiple and diverse settings. However, there is a dearth of literature on the validation of LMUP in Ethiopia either in the Amharic version or other languages. Objective The general objective of this study was to translate the LMUP into Amharic and evaluate its psychometric properties in a sample of Amharic-speaking women receiving antenatal care (ANC) service at public health facilities in Arbaminch and Birbir towns. Methods A cross-sectional study design was used for the study. Forward and backward translation of original English LMUP to Amharic was done. A cognitive interview using a pretested structured questionnaire was used to collect the data from respondents. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 25. Reliability was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha, inter-item correlations, and corrected item-total correlations while construct validity was assessed using principal components analysis and hypothesis testing. Results Data was collected from 320 women attending antennal care services at selected public health care facilities. LMUP range of 1to 11 was captured. The prevalence of unplanned pregnancies was 19(5.9%), while 136(42.5 were ambivalent and 165(51.6%) were planned pregnancies. The reliability testing demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.799) and the validity testing confirmed the unidimensional structure of the scale. In addition, all hypotheses were confirmed. Conclusions Amharic version of LMUP is a valid and reliable tool to measure pregnancy intention so that it can be used by Amharic speaking population in Ethiopia. It can also be used in research studies among Amharic-speaking women to measure unplanned pregnancy.
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Wetter, Andreas. "Rhetoric Means of a Didactic Amharic Poem from Wärrä Babbo." Aethiopica 15 (December 4, 2013): 176–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.15.1.665.

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This article describes aspects of an Amharic manuscript from Wärrä Babbo written in aǧäm, i.e. in the Arabic script. Since this kind of literature is quite widespread in the eastern parts of Wällo and in Yifat, the article begins with an introductive overview of aǧäm literature in Ethiopia and the special position of eastern Wällo as centre of Islamic scholarship and its role for the development of religiously inspired literacy. The philological and linguistic aspects of this type of Amharic literature are exemplified with a tawḥīd poem from eastern Wällo. Besides a detailled treatment of peculiar linguistic feature of the language used in the poem the analysis of the linguistics means that are used by the author to convey his intentions, i.e. the teaching of the basic Islamic tenets to his illiterate co-religionists, form the central content of the article.
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Appleyard, D. L. "Review: Amharic Cultural Reader." Journal of Semitic Studies 49, no. 2 (September 1, 2004): 365–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jss/49.2.365.

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Leyew, Zelealem. "Code‐Switching: Amharic‐English." Journal of African Cultural Studies 11, no. 2 (December 1998): 197–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696819808717834.

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Gebremariam, Hailay Tesfay, and Abate Demissie Gedamu. "Assessment for learning strategies: Amharic Language Teachers’ Practice and Challenges in Ethiopia." International Journal of Language Education 6, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.26858/ijole.v6i2.20505.

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Assessment is the central point of educational progress; it is the assistant to teachers during and after teaching and learning. One of the assessment genres, assessment for learning is referred to gathering information during teaching and learning, to determine students’ success in learning. The study aims to determine the understanding of assessment for learning strategies and challenges may face in Amharic language teachers. The participants selected from all levels of general education (1-12 grades), through cluster random sampling, were 180 Amharic language teachers for a questionnaire survey. In addition, twelve (12) teachers and four (4) teachers were selected through cluster random sampling respectively for an interview and informal conversation. The data acquired through the closed-ended questionnaire was analyzed by a one-sample t-test, while the data obtained through an open-ended questionnaire; interviews and informal conversations were analyzed in qualitative verbal description. The results are presented in two ways; the data from the close-ended questionnaire shows that Amharic language teachers are practice assessment for learning strategies in the classrooms, which is statistically significant (P < 0.01). On the other hand, the data from the open-ended questionnaire shows most Amharic language teachers’ reliance is on the old form of assessment and their awareness assessment for learning strategies is limited. In addition, the challenges, based on the practice of assessment for learning strategies in faced in the language classrooms; lack of transparency, lack of knowledge and experience, school administrative problems, lack of training, and reliance on assessment preference are faced. Based on the findings, the study concludes with recommendations that can be implemented to develop assessment for learning strategies in the language classrooms; to minimize the challenges faced by Amharic language teachers in Ethiopian general education (1-12) schools.
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Haile, Getatchew. "Amharic Poetry of the Ethiopian Diaspora in America: A Sampler." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 15, no. 2-3 (March 2011): 321–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/diaspora.15.2-3.321.

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This essay offers the first English-language translations of Amharic poetry written by Ethiopian immigrants to the United States. Following an introduction to the Amharic language and the central place of poetry in Ethiopian literature and cultural life, the author discusses the work of four poets. The poems of Tewodros Abebe, Amha Asfaw, Alemayehu Gebrehiwot, and Alemtsehay Wedajo make creative use of Ethiopian verbal constructions reminiscent of traditional war songs and verbal interrogations used in legal contexts. Many of the poems speak eloquently of the personal losses Ethiopians have suffered as a result of their departure from their homeland. The essay includes biographical and ethnographic details about the individual poets and various influences on their compositions. (April 2009)
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Bayisa, Gemechu, Tesfaye Dagnew, and Tesfamariam Gebremeskel. "An Analysis of The Presentation of Human and Democratic Rights Abuses in AMELMAL’S YÄLTÄKOÄCHE GUZO (1974- 2018)." Ethiopian Renaissance Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 10, no. 1 (August 1, 2023): 173–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/erjssh.v10i1.10.

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The main objective of the study is to examine the depiction of democratic and human rights abuses in Amelmal’s, Yältäkoäche Guzo (Unfinished Journey). One of the considerable importances of literature all over the world is its use of sympathetic and attractive literary language to expose basic human right abuses since human rights are also part of human life. Therefore, analyzing the roles of literatures that are written in Amharic language in portraying basic human rights violations is paramount. However, literatures written in Amharic language are not well studied from human rights violation perspectives. This article, therefore, explores how the violations of basic human rights are depicted in the selected novel. Because there was no computable data used, the study considered qualitative research method. Regardless of the system by which a country is ruled, human rights are inviolable because they are innate. The analysis of the novel, however, depicts that the inviolable human and democratic rights of human beings have been violated. The finding of the study showed that the depiction of human and democratic rights violations was explicit. It showed that people’s rights to life, rights to equality, rights to liberty, and rights to election were abused during the two political regimes.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Amharic literature"

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Ewnetu, Anteneh Aweke. "The Representation of Ethiopian politics in selected Amharic novels, 1930 - 2010." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/13857.

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Amharic literature has always occupied an important place in the history of the literary traditions of Ethiopia. Although this literature is believed to be strongly related to the politics of the country, there has been no study that proves this claim across the different political periods in the country. It would be ambitious to deal with all the literary genres in this respect. Therefore, delimiting the investigation of the problem is considered to be useful to filling the knowledge gap. Accordingly, this comparative research which investigates a representation of Ethiopian politics in selected Amharic novels across three political periods: 1930 – 2010 was designed. The objective of the research is to investigate the representation of Ethiopian politics in selected Amharic novels. The basic research question focuses on how these representations can be explained. An eclectic theoretical approach (the New Historicism, Bourdieu’s System Theory and the Critical Discourse Analysis) is employed to understand the representations. The main method of data collection focuses on a close reading of non-literary and literary texts. A purposive sampling technique is used to select the sample novels as the technique allows to select those that yield the most relevant data using some criteria. Based on the criteria set, sixteen novels are selected. The manners in which the political events represented in the novels are examined using different parameters. The parameters also look into the methods used in representing the political events and the time in which the events were represented, i.e. whether they are represented contemporarily, post-contemporarily or before the actual happening of the event. Having read the novels critically, the political events that took place in the three respective states are identified, analyzed and interpreted. The analysis mainly shows that different novels represented the political events in different manners: lightly or deeply, overtly or covertly, positively or negatively, contemporaneously or post-contemporaneously. Regarding the ‘how’ of the representations, it is observed that the critical novels, for instance, Alïwälädïm and Adäfrïs are covert and use symbols, direct and indirect allusions and other figures of speeches, and other techniques including turn taking, and size of dialogues to achieve their goals. Some political events are found to be either under-represented or totally un-represented in the novels. In some cases, same political events are represented differently in different novels at different times. Some novels that criticized the political events of the governments contemporaneously have been removed from market, republished in the political period that followed and exploited by the emerging government for its political end. There are some patterns observed in the analyses and interpretations of the politics in the novels. One of the patterns is that sharp criticisms on the events of an earlier political period are usually reflected in novels published in a new period. The critique novels of the Haileselassie government, for instance, Maïbäl Yabïyot Wazema, were published during the Darg period, and those that were critical of the Darg government, for instance, Anguz, were published in the EPRDF period. Another pattern observed is that there is no novel that praises a past regime, even despite being critical of a contemporary government. No novel written during the Darg period admired the Haileselassie period; and no novel written during the EPRDF period appreciated the Darg period. There are cases in which novelists who were critical of the contemporary Haileselassie and Darg periods, for instance, Abe and Bealu, respectively, ended up in detention or just disappeared and their novels, Alïwälädïm and Oromay, respecitely were banned from being circulated. Unlike the two previous political periods, the critique novels of the EPRDF period, for instance Dertogada, Ramatohara, and Yäburqa Zïmïta, have been published, or even republished, several times. Novels written during the Haileselassie period, such as Alïwälädïm, which were critical of the respective contemporary period, made their criticism covertly, using probes and imaginary settings and characters, while the critique novels of the EPRDF period, criticize overtly, and boldly. Generally, it could be concluded that the novels had the power to reflect history, and show human and class relationships implicitly, through the interactions of characters, story developments, and plot constructions, and the impact that politics has on the literature, and the influence of literature on politics.
Classics and World Languages
D. Phil. (Theory of Literature)
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Books on the topic "Amharic literature"

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Institut Afriki (Akademii͡a nauk SSSR), ed. Literatura ėfiopii (na Amkharskom i︠a︡ėyke). khestomati︠i︡: Ethiopian literature (in Amharic). Chrestomathy. Moscow: Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2014.

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Molvaer, Reidulf Knut. Black lions: The creative lives of modern Ethiopia's literary giants and pioneers. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1997.

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Fesseha, Zewditu. Lāqač ʼande: Yamandardarāyā qālāt = Laqech one : Amharic Ethiopian script. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2007.

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Siegbert, Uhlig, and Bairu Tafla, eds. Collectanea aethiopica. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1988.

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ʼAzaza, Faqāda. Unheard voices: Drought, famine, and God in Ethiopian oral poetry. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press, 1998.

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Cohen, Marcel Samuel Raphaël. Traité de langue amharique: (Abyssinie). 3rd ed. Paris: Institut d'ethnologie, Musée de l'homme, 1995.

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Faqādu, H̲āylayasus, and Margo Eyon. ha-Yeled ṿeha-gesher: Ṿe-sipurim aḥerim me-Etyopyah. Tel-Aviv: ha-Agudah lemaʻan ʻidud yetsirah, targum ṿe-tarbut shel ha-ʻedah ha-Etyopit, 2000.

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Negash, Ghirmai. A h istory of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden, 1999.

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Negash, Ghirmai. A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written 1890-1991. Trenton, NJ: Red Sea Press, 2009.

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Negash, Ghirmai. A history of Tigrinya literature in Eritrea: The oral and the written, 1890-1991. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden, 1999.

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Book chapters on the topic "Amharic literature"

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Steblin-Kamensky, Nikolay. "A Handbook of the Socialist Movement." In Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context, 367–84. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0340.21.

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This essay examines the Soviet project of literary translation into Amharic, testing its ostensibly egalitarian appeal against the USSR’s political goals. Firstly, I use a bibliographical index to overview the history of Soviet Amharic translation, demonstrating the statist nature of the project. Secondly, through a case study of the translation of Gorky’s Mother (1906), I analyze the limits of state control over a translation project. I conclude that, despite the literalistic mode of translation strictly imposed by the Soviet publisher, translators could adjust their work to transmit a particular message to his readership. Books, as cultural goods, are not only distinct from market commodities; they resist being reduced to political functions. Despite the state’s significant investment of resources, the USSR could not determine which books would become popular and domesticated in subaltern nations, and which would be rejected.
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Marzagora, Sara. "The first Ethiopian novel in Amharic (1908) and the world: Critical and theoretical legacies." In African Literatures as World Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501379987.ch-005.

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Trommer, Jochen. "A feature-geometric approach to Amharic verb classes." In Inflectional Identity, 206–36. Oxford University PressOxford, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0007.

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Abstract It is well known that Ethiopian Semitic languages have different verb classes which determine root shape in different paradigms (Leslau 1995, 2000; Amberber 2002). Thus verbal roots with three consonants (called “triradicals” in the Semitistic literature) in Amharic are traditionally divided into three classes, A, B, and C, which differ by the vowel and gemination patterns in different paradigms.
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Goldenberg, Gideon, and ז"ל. "Old Amharic Object Suffixes and the Formation of the ሰያፍ ፡ አንቀጽ." In Studies in Ethiopian Languages, Literature, and History, 553–62. Harrassowitz, O, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvckq4mn.27.

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Wakjira, Bedilu, and Teshager Shiferaw. "Language in the media." In The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages, 78—C6P37. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728542.013.6.

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Abstract This chapter describes how the social foundation of literacy in Ethiopia is entrenched in religion. It underlines that the requirement for education emanated from the institutional interests of churches and mosques. Being literate was synonymous with being clerical, as books and other written materials were almost exclusively on religious matters. The chapter also outlines the start of the production of books and reading materials in Ethiopian languages in the 19th century. It discusses the introduction of newspapers in the late 19th century by Europeans who started to print brief newsletters with a focus mainly on religion but also on Amharic and Tigrinya grammar. Ultimately, this chapter peeks at how journalism and the readership of print media started to grow as a result of improvements in literacy. The chapter also analyzes the expansion of printing presses in Ethiopia and a major change in language policy.
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Reports on the topic "Amharic literature"

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Carruth, Lauren. Key Considerations: Social, Structural and Community Dynamics of Cholera Transmission and Mortality in Ethiopia. Institute of Development Studies, April 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2024.004.

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The current cholera outbreak in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia began in August 2022. As of April 2024, active outbreaks had been recorded in most regions of the country, including: Amhara; Dire Dawa; Harari; Oromia; Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR); Somali and Tigray. This brief has been developed to support response efforts by exploring the social and structural determinants and community dynamics of cholera infection and mortality in Ethiopia. Socio-cultural and epidemiological information, academic and grey literature and consultations with cholera response experts in Ethiopia have been used to develop the brief.
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Abebe, Heran, and Getachew Belaineh. Key Considerations: Social Science Perspectives for Emergency Response to the Conflict in Northern Ethiopia. SSHAP, October 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/sshap.2022.031.

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Ethiopia is currently experiencing several intersecting humanitarian crises including conflict, climatic shocks, COVID-19, desert locust infestation and more. These intersecting crises are affecting nearly 30 million people and resulting in food insecurity, displacement and protection risks. As of February 2022, over 2.5 million people were estimated to have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict-driven humanitarian crisis in the Northern Ethiopian regions of Tigray, Amhara and Afar that began in November 2020. As of May 2022, 9.4 million were in need of humanitarian aid in the region. Private and public assets have been destroyed, already fragile livelihoods damaged, and communities left in dire need of support. This brief outlines important contextual factors and social impacts of the Northern Ethiopian crisis and offers key considerations to improve the effectiveness of the humanitarian response. It is based on a rapid review of existing published and grey literature and conversations with relevant stakeholders, including people from affected regions and humanitarian responders. This brief is part of a series authored by participants from the SSHAP Fellowship and was written by Heran Abebe and Getachew Belaineh from Cohort 2. It was reviewed by Ezana Amdework (Addis Ababa University), Kelemework Tafere (Mekelle University), and Yomif Worku (independent humanitarian advisor), and was supported by Tabitha Hrynick from the SSHAP team at the Institute of Development Studies. The brief is the responsibility of the SSHAP.
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