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Hudson, Grover. "Languages of Ethiopia and Languages of the 1994 Ethiopian Census." Aethiopica 7 (October 22, 2012): 160–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.7.1.286.

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The 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia gathered considerable information of linguistic interest, notably the number of speakers of seventy-seven languages which it recognized. The Census’s list is largely consistent with lists of languages recognized in current research by Ethiopianist linguists. However, problems of two sorts arise in the Census list: dialects counted as languages and languages counted as dialects. Survey of research in Ethiopian linguistics supports instead the existence of seventy-three Ethiopian languages now spoken, a list of languages and their dialects which

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Walga, Tamene Keneni. "Prospects and Challenges of Afan Oromo: A Commentary." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 6 (2021): 606–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1106.03.

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Afan Oromo- the language of the Oromo- is also known as Oromo. The word ‘Oromo’ refers to both the People of Oromo and their language. It is one of the widely spoken indigenous African languages. It is also spoken in multiple countries in Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania among others. Moreover, it is spoken as a native language, second language and lingua-franca across Ethiopia and beyond. Regardless of its scope in terms of number of speakers and geographical area it covers, Afan Oromo as a literary language is only emerging due to perpetuating unfair treatment it

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Wolff, H. Ekkehard, Sileshi Berhanu, and Getinet Fulea. "On Visibility and Legitimisation of Languages: The ‘Linguistic Landscape’ in Adaama, Ethiopia." Aethiopica 16 (March 9, 2014): 149–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.16.1.704.

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With a focus on the city of Adaama (formerly: Nazret), the biggest urban agglomeration in Oromia Regional State, the paper addresses the “linguistic landscape” which is indicative of the overall sociolinguistic situation of a polity. Language use in the public space has not only practical-instrumental, but also historical, political, juridical, and most of allpsycho-sociological dimensions, the latter relating to the symbolic value of written language use. The paper deals with multilingual graphic representations on public commercial and private sign-boards, advertisements, and notices in Adaa

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Kifleyesus, Abbebe. "The Argobba of Ethiopia are not the Language they Speak." Aethiopica 9 (September 24, 2012): 7–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.9.1.238.

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The Argobba of southeastern Wällo and northeastern Šäwa live amongst and speak the languages of the Amhara and the Oromo with great ease as if they are members of these ethnic groups. For them Amharic and Afaan Oromoo are the languages of administration and market transaction and therefore important for Argobba survival in a region domi-nated by these two ethno-linguistic groups. Yet the Argobba I met in these lands identified themselves as Argobba, and they were known as such, despite the fact that several of them had Amharic or Afaan Oromoo as their first language. The central claim of this

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Dadoo, Yousuf. "LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL AFFINITIES: THE CASE OF ARABIC AND ETHIOPIAN LANGUAGES." Journal for Semitics 25, no. 2 (2017): 700–725. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/1013-8471/2553.

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Multi-faceted relations between Ethiopia and South Arabia existed since the sixth century B.C. During the earlier phase, the Christian Ethiopians networked with their co-religionists. Later they interacted primarily with Muslim Arabs some of whom settled in Ethiopia either in search of religious sanctuary or for trade purposes. The Muslims entrenched themselves and established petty kingdoms between the ninth and fifteenth centuries C.E. Thereafter, they suffered huge reversals at the hands of their Christian compatriots who were assisted by the Portuguese colonial power. Over the last two cen

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Hailu, Yemserach Legesse. "Language Law and Policy of the Federal Government of Ethiopia: Implications for Fair Trial and the Rights of Non-Amharic Language Speakers Accused." Acta Humana 9, no. 1 (2021): 59–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.32566/ah.2021.1.4.

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Ethiopia is a multilingual country with a federal form of state structure. The 1995 Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE Constitution) gave equal recognition for all Ethiopian languages, but has chosen Amharic to become the working language of the Federal Government. In order to accommodate the needs of non-Amharic speakers in the provision of public services, the Constitution and other laws such as the Criminal Procedure Code, require the use of interpreters. Particularly in criminal proceedings, non-Amharic speakers are entitled to be assisted with a ‘qualified’

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Taye, Bekau Atnafu. "The medium of instruction in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions: Kotebe Metropolitan University Case study." African Journal of Teacher Education 8 (April 1, 2019): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.21083/ajote.v8i0.4367.

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The aim of this article is to examine the medium of instruction in Ethiopian higher education institutions and the perceived consequences of the failure to learn a lingua franca. The study was qualitative and it used interviews and focus group discussions (FGDs). Five teachers and five students took part in the interviews and six teachers and six students participated in the FGDs. The findings of the study showed that the role of Amharic as a working language has not been given recognition despite the fact that Amharic was constitutionally granted to be a working language. Due to language barr

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Leslau, Wolf. "Inor lullabies." Africa 66, no. 2 (1996): 280–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1161320.

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AbstractFourteen Gurage lullabies from Ethiopia, in their Inor transcriptions and English translations, are briefly introduced and annotated. Inor belongs to the West Gurage group of languages; this set of lullabies complements those from Eža (another West Gurage language) published earlier by the author.

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Schröder, Helga. "The Syntax and Semantics of Clause-Chaining in Toposa." Studies in African Linguistics 49, no. 1 (2020): 60–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v49i1.122263.

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Some languages make extensive use of clause-chaining. According to Payne (1997: 312), clause-chaining has been documented for languages in the highlands of New Guinea, Australia and the Americas. In Africa it is found in Ethiopia (Völlmin et al. 2007), in Kiswahili, a Bantu language (Hopper 1979: 213-215, Mungania 2018), in Anuak, a Western Nilotic language (Longacre 1990: 88-90 and 2007: 418) and in Toposa, a VSO language of South Sudan (Schröder 2011). Clause-chaining is characterized by a long combination of non-finite clauses that have operator dependency on a finite clause, and it usually

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Záhořík, Jan. "Languages in Sub-Saharan Africa in a broader socio-political perspective." Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 11, no. 2 (2010): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/aov.2010.3646.

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Charles University This study deals with language policies in Africa with a special focus on multi-ethnic and multi-lingual states including Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cameroon, and Democratic Republic of Congo. The study will thus examine relations between state and minorities, the status of major and marginalized languages, the roles of European languages in politics as well as theoretical frameworks. Sub-Saharan Africa has undergone a remarkable process from linguistic imperialism to linguistic pluralism and revivalism. Until the 1960s the superior position of the European languages (English

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Treis, Yvonne. "Switch-reference and Omotic-Cushitic Language Contact in Southwest Ethiopia." Journal of Language Contact 5, no. 1 (2012): 80–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187740912x624469.

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Africa has up until now been considered a continent where switch-reference systems are extremely rare. This study shows that there is a confined area in the South of Ethiopia where many Omotic languages and a few Cushitic languages have fully grammaticalised switch-reference systems on dependent (co-)subordinate non-final verbs, so-called converbs. The paper describes in detail the switch-reference system of Kambaata (Cushitic) and gives an overview of the distribution of switch-reference systems in Ethiopia in general. It is argued that switch-reference marking in Cushitic languages is the re

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Kelly, Samantha. "The Curious Case of Ethiopic Chaldean: Fraud, Philology, and Cultural (Mis)Understanding in European Conceptions of Ethiopia." Renaissance Quarterly 68, no. 4 (2015): 1227–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/685125.

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AbstractAn intriguing mystery in early modern intellectual history is how and why European scholars came to designate Ethiopic, the sacred language of Ethiopia, as Chaldean. This article locates the designation’s origins in a deduction made by Vatican library personnel, partially inspired by a hoax perpetrated a quarter-century earlier. It then traces the influence of this designation on the progress of historical linguistics, where theories defending the appellation of Ethiopic as Chaldean, although often erroneous, nevertheless contributed to the accurate categorization of Ethiopic as a Semi

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Wu, Tong. "Prenominal relative clauses in Ethiopian languages: From inside and from outside." Studies in African Linguistics 41, no. 2 (2012): 213–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v41i2.107277.

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The main objective of this data-oriented study is to give a synchronic typological overview of Ethiopian prenominal relative clauses, both from the inside and from the outside. By “inside”, I mean to compare prenominal relative clauses in the Ethiopian area in order to show how they are different from and/or similar to each other. By “outside”, I extend the comparison to beyond Ethiopian languages and include other African languages with or without prenominal relative clauses and languages from elsewhere with prenominal relative clauses. These comparisons will show to what extent Ethiopian pre

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Tesfaye, Ashenafi, and Klaus Wedekind. "Characteristics of Omotic tone Shinasha Borna." Studies in African Linguistics 21, no. 3 (1990): 347–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v21i3.107432.

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The article provides some phonological background and outlines the tonal system of Shinasha (Borna), an isolated North Omotic language of Ethiopia. There are two contrasting tones. Their behaviour shows characteristics which have also been observed for other Omotic languages: stability of lexical tone, limited use of tone in the syntax, and absence of sandhi. The article provides new evidence that vowel quality can have a strong influence on the tonetic realisation: Shinasha is not the only Omotic language where high vowel quality is associated with extra high pitch.

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Vatvedt Fjeld, Ruth E., Elsa Kristiansen, Marianne Rathje, et al. "The worldwide use and meaning of the f-word." Intercultural Pragmatics 16, no. 1 (2019): 85–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ip-2019-0004.

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Abstract This article documents the increasing use of the English curse word fuck worldwide, as well as its degree of adaption into the host language, its syntactic function, and its meaning and its strength as taboo. Comparing the use of fuck with a special focus on the Nordic countries (Norway, Denmark, and Iceland) with its use in Eurasia and Africa (with different alphabets, namely Cyrillic in Russia, Devanāgarī in India and Ge’ez script in Ethiopia), we found some similar developmental patterns, but also differences, for example to what degree the English loan word has replaced local curs

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Hailay, Abrha, Woldu Aberhe, Guesh Mebrahtom, Kidane Zereabruk, Guesh Gebreayezgi, and Teklehaimanot Haile. "Burnout among Nurses Working in Ethiopia." Behavioural Neurology 2020 (October 16, 2020): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/8814557.

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Background. Burnout is a condition of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and low personal accomplishment that can occur among individuals who work with people in some capacity. Nursing is a stressful profession that deals with human aspects of health and illness and can ultimately lead to job dissatisfaction and burnout. Although burnout among nurses has been addressed in previous research, the heterogeneous nature of the result findings highlights the need for a detailed meta-analysis in Ethiopia. Thus, this review is aimed at identifying the prevalence of burnout among nurses in Ethiop

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Scheinfeldt, Laura B., Sameer Soi, Charla Lambert, et al. "Genomic evidence for shared common ancestry of East African hunting-gathering populations and insights into local adaptation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 10 (2019): 4166–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817678116.

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Anatomically modern humans arose in Africa ∼300,000 years ago, but the demographic and adaptive histories of African populations are not well-characterized. Here, we have generated a genome-wide dataset from 840 Africans, residing in western, eastern, southern, and northern Africa, belonging to 50 ethnicities, and speaking languages belonging to four language families. In addition to agriculturalists and pastoralists, our study includes 16 populations that practice, or until recently have practiced, a hunting-gathering (HG) lifestyle. We observe that genetic structure in Africa is broadly corr

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Ukoyen, Joseph. "La littérature africaine moderne en traduction." Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation 45, no. 2 (1999): 149–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.45.2.04uko.

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Résumé La question linguistique constitue à l'heure actuelle un des problèmes fondamentaux auxquels font face les Etats-Nations d'Afrique. Faut-il conserver intégralement les langues d'origine coloniale, dites langues officielles, non seulement comme moyens d'enseignement mais aussi comme véhicules de communication dans tous les autres domaines de la vie, y compris le gouvernement, ou faut-il remplacer les langues exogènes par une ou plusieurs langues indigènes dans chaque territoire national? A l'exception de la Tanzanie, du Kenya et de l'Ethiopie, qui ont su résoudre avec succès le problème

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Meyer, Ronny. "December 13–14, 2007 in Mainz: Workshop on “Language contact in Ethiopia: Examples from Cushitic, Omotic and Semitic languages”." Aethiopica 11 (April 26, 2012): 303–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.11.1.186.

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Lusini, Gianfrancesco. "Lingua letteraria e lingua di corte: diglossia e insegnamento tradizionale in Etiopia fra Tardo Antico e Medio Evo." AION (filol.) Annali dell’Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” 41, no. 1 (2019): 274–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17246172-40010020.

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Abstract The Ethiopian literary tradition extends over a time frame beginning even before the christianization of the Country (first half of the 4th cent.) up to modern times. In this long period we frequently register phenomena of interference both among different languages (Greek, Gǝ‘ǝz, Arabic, Amharic, agaw languages and so on) and between various registers of the same language, produced or conditioned by specific cultural or religious contexts. Particularly, in the Middle Ages the differentiation between Gǝ‘ǝz as the language of the clergy and the written discourse, and Amharic as the lan

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Driessen, Miriam. "Pidgin play: Linguistic subversion on Chinese-run construction sites in Ethiopia." African Affairs 119, no. 476 (2020): 432–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adaa016.

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Abstract The Chinese-run construction sites that have emerged across the Ethiopian landscape over the past two decades have given rise to a pidgin—a contact language that facilitates communication between Chinese managers and the Ethiopian labourers under their direction. By unravelling the nature of this pidgin, including its lexicon, syntax, and semantics, this article discusses the power dynamics in Ethiopian–Chinese encounters through the lens of language. A prototypical contact language at first blush, the pidgin spoken on Chinese road projects in Ethiopia is different from pidgins that e

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Getahun, Amare. "The structure of Argobba nominal phrase." Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 39, no. 2 (2018): 127–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jall-2018-0011.

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Abstract This paper analyzes the internal structure of Argobba nominal phrase in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) formalism. Argobba is a seriously endangered Semitic language in Ethiopia. Unlike its sister languages in the Ethio-Semitic subfamily, Argobba nouns qualified by a demonstrative, possessive pronoun and genitive NP bear a definite article. It is argued in this paper that the definite article is not an independent syntactic element, but an affix, which is attached to indefinite nouns lexically. It is argued that the derivation of Argobba definite common nouns is captured b

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Pandžić, Zvonko. "Von Coimbra nach Tobol’sk." Historiographia Linguistica 44, no. 1 (2017): 72–134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/hl.44.1.03pan.

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Summary Worldwide missionary activities from the 16th century onward were not limited to the New World and overseas in general, but also in East Central Europe in the wake of sectarian struggles following the Reformation. Soon after the Tridentine Council (1545–1563), the Jesuits spread their activities to all countries between the Baltic and Adriatic Seas. Not only Catholic but also Lutheran and Calvinist missionaries went to Poland-Lithuania, Hungary, Slovenia, and other countries. The first Polish grammar (Statorius 1568) was published principally for the Calvinist mission in Poland, while

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McNab, Christine. "Language Policy and Language Practice: Implementing Multilingual Literacy Education in Ethiopia." African Studies Review 33, no. 3 (1990): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524187.

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Shany, Michal, Esther Geva, and Liat Melech-Feder. "Emergent literacy in children of immigrants coming from a primarily oral literacy culture." Written Language and Literacy 13, no. 1 (2010): 24–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.13.1.02sha.

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This study examined emergent literacy skills of 61 kindergarten children whose families had immigrated to Israel from a primarily oral society (Ethiopia). Three complementary perspectives were examined: developmental patterns, individual differences, and the contribution of parent literacy. The emergent literacy skills of children whose families were from Ethiopia were compared to those of 52 children coming from a primarily literate culture. The groups had acquired less complex Hebrew literacy skills in the same order, including phonological awareness, letter naming and consonant writing. How

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Drewes, A. J. "Amharic as a language of Islam." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 70, no. 1 (2007): 1–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x07000018.

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Amharic, the native language of a large group of the population of central Ethiopia, also functions as a lingua franca among the neighbouring peoples, and has done so for a long time. The language is usually associated with the culture of the politically dominant part of the population, the Christian culture. But it is certain that from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, and probably even before that time, Amharic was used also for Islamic religious texts: poetry composed to spread the basic religious concepts of Islam and songs to be chanted in religious meetings. The first foreign scholar t

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Banti, Giorgio. "Joachim Crass – Ronny Meyer (eds.), Language Contact and Language Change in Ethiopia." Aethiopica 17 (December 19, 2014): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.17.1.869.

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Dege-Müller, Sophia. "Between Heretics and Jews: Inventing Jewish Identities in Ethiopia." Entangled Religions 6 (April 17, 2018): 247–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.46586/er.v6.2018.247-308.

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The Beta Israel, the Ethiopian Jews, have suffered from a negative or complete misrepresentation in the written and oral sources of pre-modern Ethiopia. The term “Jew” was deliberately chosen to stigmatize heretic groups, or any other group deviating from the normative church doctrine. Often no difference was made between Jewish groups or heretic Christians; they were marginalized and persecuted in the harshest way. The article illustrates how Jews are featured in the Ethiopian sources, the apparent patterns in this usage, and the polemic language chosen to describe these people.

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Fesseha, Awet, Shengwu Xiong, Eshete Derb Emiru, Moussa Diallo, and Abdelghani Dahou. "Text Classification Based on Convolutional Neural Networks and Word Embedding for Low-Resource Languages: Tigrinya." Information 12, no. 2 (2021): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info12020052.

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This article studies convolutional neural networks for Tigrinya (also referred to as Tigrigna), which is a family of Semitic languages spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia. Tigrinya is a “low-resource” language and is notable in terms of the absence of comprehensive and free data. Furthermore, it is characterized as one of the most semantically and syntactically complex languages in the world, similar to other Semitic languages. To the best of our knowledge, no previous research has been conducted on the state-of-the-art embedding technique that is shown here. We investigate which word repr

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Kapočiūtė-Dzikienė, Jurgita, and Senait Gebremichael Tesfagergish. "Part-of-Speech Tagging via Deep Neural Networks for Northern-Ethiopic Languages." Information Technology And Control 49, no. 4 (2020): 482–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.itc.49.4.26808.

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have proven to be especially successful in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging—which is the process of mapping words to their corresponding POS labels depending on the context. Despite recent development of language technologies, low-resourced languages (such as an East African Tigrinya language), have received too little attention. We investigate the effectiveness of Deep Learning (DL) solutions for the low-resourced Tigrinya language of the Northern-Ethiopic branch. We have selected Tigrinya as the testbed example and hav

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Dobson, Teresa M., Marlene Asselin, and Alemu Abebe. "Considerations for Design and Production of Digital Books for Early Literacy in Ethiopia." Language and Literacy 20, no. 3 (2018): 134–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.20360/langandlit29414.

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This paper considers the implications of digital text production models for the development of reading materials for emergent and early readers in the Ethiopian context. We draw from several theoretical frameworks and also from comments of Ethiopian academics, writers, and publishers to ground descriptions of Ethiopian contexts of language and literacy. We then present three different models for the production and curation of digital stories for children and contemplate how these models align with existing literacy traditions and practices. We also raise questions about the potential effects o

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Ali, Mohammed Hassen. "Shaykh Bakrii Saphalo." American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 31, no. 3 (2014): 93–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajiss.v31i3.286.

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Shaykh Bakrii Saphalo was a perceptive Oromo Muslim scholar who used traditional Oromo wisdom to make Islam intelligible to his people and part of their cultural heritage. A gifted poet who wrote in Arabic, Oromo, and Somali, he was persecuted by two successive Ethiopian regimes during the 1960s and 1970s. As an activist scholar, he sought to spread knowledge among the Oromo, who constitute about 40 percent of Ethiopia’s population. Due to the government’s tight control and distance, as well as the lack of modern communication and technology, his effort was limited mainly to the Oromo in Harar

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Ali, Mohammed Hassen. "Shaykh Bakrii Saphalo." American Journal of Islam and Society 31, no. 3 (2014): 93–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v31i3.286.

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Shaykh Bakrii Saphalo was a perceptive Oromo Muslim scholar who used traditional Oromo wisdom to make Islam intelligible to his people and part of their cultural heritage. A gifted poet who wrote in Arabic, Oromo, and Somali, he was persecuted by two successive Ethiopian regimes during the 1960s and 1970s. As an activist scholar, he sought to spread knowledge among the Oromo, who constitute about 40 percent of Ethiopia’s population. Due to the government’s tight control and distance, as well as the lack of modern communication and technology, his effort was limited mainly to the Oromo in Harar

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Smith, Lahra. "The Politics of Contemporary Language Policy in Ethiopia." Journal of Developing Societies 24, no. 2 (2008): 207–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0169796x0802400206.

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Awol, Ousman Shafi. "Intensifiers, Reflexive and Reciprocal Pronouns in Argobba Language, Ethio-Semitic." English Linguistics Research 9, no. 1 (2020): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v9n1p25.

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Argobba is a South Ethio-Semitic language which is predominantly used in day-to-day communication by a population of about 140, 134 people in the Argobba Zone (Central Statistical Agency (2008:59), Ethiopia, whose linguistic features were not well described. The Argobba lives in the escarpment slopes of northeastern Shewa and southeastern Wollo, a minority of them are live in the adjoining settlements of the town of Harar in eastern Ethiopia.The Argobba make their living by cultivating plants, by breeding animals, weaving and by trade (Hussein, 2006:416). Most of the Argobba people are followe

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Woldemariam, Hirut, and Elizabeth Lanza. "Imagined community." Linguistic Landscape. An international journal 1, no. 1-2 (2015): 172–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ll.1.1-2.10wol.

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In this article, we investigate how the linguistic landscape serves as an important strategy among a diaspora community not only to maintain a transnational identity but also to construct a unique identity in the recipient society. We examine the linguistic landscape in the Ethiopian diaspora of Washington DC, referred to as “Little Ethiopia”, which provides an interesting site to investigate the role of the linguistic landscape in constructing an imaginary community built on the myth of the old homeland, including a unique African identity in a new homeland with other Africans as well as Afri

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Diriba, Chala, Million Meshesha, and Debela Tesfaye. "Developing a Knowledge-Based System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 15, no. 04 (2016): 1650036. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649216500362.

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Malaria is a serious and fatal disease caused by a parasite that can infect a certain type of mosquito which feeds on human blood. It is a public health problem in Ethiopia and a major cause of illness and death. More than 75% of the total land of Ethiopia is malarious affecting more than 68% of the population, making malaria the leading public health problem in Ethiopia. In an effort to address such problems, it is important to develop knowledge-based system (KBS) that can provide advice for health professionals and patients to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of malaria patients. Experimen

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Getahun, Dawit Asrat, Waheed Hammad, and Anna Robinson-Pant. "Academic writing for publication: Putting the ‘international’ into context." Research in Comparative and International Education 16, no. 2 (2021): 160–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17454999211009346.

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There is a growing body of research on the impact of English-medium publication and associated higher education regimes on knowledge construction. However, not much is known about how academics outside the Global North make decisions about how and where to publish. Through a comparative case study, this article sets out to explore how academics in Ethiopia and Oman engage in writing for publication. Taking an academic literacies lens, the analysis reveals that their decisions were shaped by institutional values at the local level, as well as global hierarchies around knowledge construction. Ho

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Bright, William. "A Matter of Typology." Written Language and Literacy 2, no. 1 (1999): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.2.1.03bri.

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The typology of writing systems includes such well known categories as the alphabet (e.g. that of English), the syllabary (e.g. Japanese kana), and the logosyllabary (such as Chinese characters). An additional type, exemplified by writing systems of India and Ethiopia, shows features of both the alphabet and the syllabary; it has sometimes been called an alphasyllabary, sometimes an abugida (borrowing an Ethiopic term). These terms can be distinguished in several Asian writing systems, depending on whether priority is given to the presence of an inherent vowel or to the graphic arrangement of

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Lemenkova, Polina. "Scripting methods in topographic data processing on the example of Ethiopia." SINET: Ethiopian Journal of Science 44, no. 1 (2021): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/sinet.v44i1.9.

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This study evaluates the geomorphometric parameters of the topography in Ethiopia using scripting cartographic methods by applying R languages (packages 'tmap' and 'raster') and Generic Mapping Tools (gmt) for 2D and 3D topographic modelling. Data were collected from the open source repositories on geospatial data with high resolution: gebco with 15 arc-second and etopo1 with 1 arc-minute resolution and embedded dataset of srtm 90 m in 'raster' library of R. The study demonstrated application of the programming approaches in cartographic data visualization and mapping for geomorphometric analy

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Savà, Graziano, and Mauro Tosco. "A sketch of Ongota a dying language of southwest Ethiopia." Studies in African Linguistics 29, no. 2 (2000): 60–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.32473/sal.v29i2.107366.

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The article provides a grammatical sketch of Ongota, a language on the brink of extinction (actively used by eight out of an ethnic group of nearly one hundred) spoken in the South Omo Zone of Southwestern Ethiopia. The language has now been largely superseded by Ts'amakko, a neighboring East Cushitic language, and code-switching in Ts'arnakko occurs extensively in the data. A peculiar characteristic of Ongota is that tense distinctions on the verb are marked only tonally. Ongota's genetic affiliation is uncertain, but most probably Afroasiatic, either Cushitic or Omotic; on the other hand, it

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Rouaud, Alain. "De quand date le Manuale d'Afä-Wärq Gäbrä-Iyäsus?" Aethiopica 1 (September 13, 2013): 164–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.15460/aethiopica.1.1.653.

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At the end of his life when he was the Ethiopian ambassador in Italy, Afä-Wärq (1868–1947) published a short handbook of Amharic language for Italians. Several chronological cross-checkings make us sure that the book has been published in 1934 or 1936. But most probably we may trace back the grammatical and ideological contents to the beginning of this century. It shows that Afä-Wärq had kept fidelity to his first ideas in favour of a modern Ethiopia.

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Bell, Nancy. "Transforming faces: Supporting second language learners studying speech-language therapy in global contexts." Applied Linguistics Review 11, no. 3 (2020): 403–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2018-0071.

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AbstractThe Transforming Faces project is a partnership of speech-language therapy (SLT) educators and practitioners that is co-creating a computer-based series of lecture modules for use in Low Middle Income Countries (LMICs). The initial series of lectures is in English, for use by English speaking instructors and students whose first language is not English. Making the technically challenging and content-specific language of the lectures more accessible and comprehensible to students was the focus of this study. A review of literature from three areas of language learning led to recommendat

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Midega, Milkessa. "Official Language Choice in Ethiopia: Means of Inclusion or Exclusion?" OALib 01, no. 07 (2014): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1100932.

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Frantsouzoff, Serge A. "The First Step to Apostasy? (An Ethiopian Ruler’s Missive to the Sultan Baybars Re-interpreted)." Scrinium 16, no. 1 (2020): 367–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00160p25.

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Abstract A majority of the sources on medieval Ethiopia are written in the Gǝ‘ǝz language in the “genre” of history. However, some texts written in Arabic remain equally important. Among such texts the missive addressed by a ruler of Ethiopia to the Mamluk Sultan Baybars (known as al-Malik al-Ẓāhir) in AH 673 / AD 1274-75 is of considerable interest. The Ethiopian ruler can be identified as the founder of the Ethiopian Solomonic dynasty Yǝkunno Amlak. The text of this missive survived in three Arabic versions: in the Islamic “encyclopaedias” by al-Nuwayrī and al-Qalqashadī (resp. AH 730 / AD 1

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Ahlberg, Aija Katriina, Kenneth Eklund, Suzanne C. S. A. Otieno, and Lea Nieminen. "From abugida to alphabet in Konso, Ethiopia." Written Language and Literacy 22, no. 1 (2019): 1–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/wll.00018.ahl.

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Abstract This study examines the interplay between phonological awareness and orthography in Konso, a Cushitic language in Southwest Ethiopia. Thirty-two adults reading the Konso abugida but with minimal exposure to alphabetic literacy completed an orally administered phoneme deletion task. The responses were then examined using the minimal edit distance hypothesis (Wali, Sproat, Padakannaya & Bhuvaneshwari, 2009) as a framework for the analysis. The results suggest that the difficulty of a deletion was related to the way the phoneme was represented in the Konso abugida. Content-based erro

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van Aswegen, Kobus. "The maintenance of Maale in Ethiopia." Language Matters 39, no. 1 (2008): 29–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10228190802321012.

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Churko, Chuchu, Mekuria Asnakew Asfaw, and Zerihun Zerdo. "Exploring barriers for trachomatous trichiasis surgery implementation in gamo zone, Southern Ethiopia." PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 15, no. 9 (2021): e0009780. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009780.

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Background Trachomatous trichiasis is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. The World Health Organization recommends eyelid surgery to reduce the risk of visual impairment from trichiasis. Unfortunately, the number of cases operated has grown less than expected. An understanding of barriers is fundamental for instituting measures to increase surgical uptake. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore barriers of TT surgery implementation. Methods A qualitative study design was employed in December 2019. Purposive sampling technique was used to select three districts from Ga

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Barnes, Lawrie, and Kobus van Aswegen. "An investigation into the maintenance of the Maale language in Ethiopia." African Identities 6, no. 4 (2008): 431–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725840802417984.

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ullendorff, edward. "a tigrinya letter from an eritrean notable." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 68, no. 2 (2005): 295–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x05000145.

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tigrinya (t[schwa]gr[schwa]ňňa) is, next to amharic, the most widely spoken semitic language in ethiopia, mainly in the tigre province and in eritrea. in most respects it is closer to the orthodox semitic typology than amharic. in terms of the number of semitic language speakers in general it follows arabic and amharic and surpasses hebrew by those who speak that language indigenously.

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