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Krzyżanowska M., Ghion-Hamadu K., Bulakh M., Aethiopica 2023 Vol. 26 P. 226–231
A bibliography of publications in English, German, French, Italian, Amharic, Russian etc. dealing with Ethiopian Semitic, Cushitic, and Omotic Linguistics, published in 2022. ...
Added: March 6, 2025
Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2025 Vol. 175 No. 1 P. 29–59
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Lyavdansky A., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2023 Т. 19 № 1 С. 193–229
On the basis of field and corpus data, preliminary observations are made about the form and function of serial verb constructions (SVC) in the varieties of Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic. Serial verb constructions are considered adopting
“wide” understanding of this phenomenon, represented by the works of Plungyan, Aikhenvald and Andrason among many others. Big amount of data ...
Added: August 7, 2023
Bulakh M., Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 2023 Vol. 44 No. 1 P. 1–23
South Ethio-Semitic (SES) is a genealogical branch of Ethio-Semitic (ES), a subgroup of Semitic found almost entirely in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The paper considers two features characteristic of several South Ethio-Semitic languages. Firstly, the Prefix Conjugation displays a common 1sg/1pl prefix in various SES languages. Secondly, an innovative 1pl suffix is often employed in the ...
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Amsalu T., Bulakh M., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.: Oxford University Press, 2023. Ch. 24 P. 500–531.
Added: June 27, 2023
Bulakh M., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.: Oxford University Press, 2023. Ch. 28 P. 607–640.
Tigrinya is the working language of the Tigray National Regional State (Ethiopia) and of the government of Eritrea. It is also spoken in Ethiopian and Eritrean diaspora in Israel, Europe, and the USA. Most of its speakers are Christians. The language is used in mass media, education, and administration. Tigrinya orthography is based on the ...
Added: June 26, 2023
Oxford University Press, 2023.
This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent ...
Added: June 26, 2023
Balakhvantsev A., Kogan L., Lyavdansky A. et al., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2022 Vol. 82 No. 4 P. 911–940
The authors publish a hitherto unknown squeeze made from a North West Semitic inscription. The squeeze originally belonged to the Russian Archeological Institute in Constantinople and is now hosted by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The inscription, performed in relief, may have been made on a large ...
Added: December 24, 2022
Bulakh M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. e11–e23
The book Classical Ethiopic. A Grammar of Gəʕəz is an English translation of Josef Tropper’s Altäthiopisch. Grammatik des Ge‘ez mit Übungstexten and Glossar published in 2002 and since then serving as the only comprehensive modern description of Classical Ethiopic (also known as Old Ethiopic, or Gəʕz). The present review evaluates the English version and takes the ...
Added: November 9, 2022
Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 1 P. 337–351
Suffix conjugations (SCs) of East and West Semitic may not be traced back to the same verb form in Proto-Semitic. Rather, they evolved separately, by way of a ‘common drift’ in the two branches of Semitic. This is demonstrated, in particular, by a crass contrast, both in forms and diathetic meanings, between the SCs of ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Kalinin M., Loesov S., Journal of Semitic Studies 2022 Vol. 67 No. 2 P. 471–516
In Proto-Aramaic, the passive of transitive verbs belonging to all three principal stems—G, D and C—was formed internally. Some verbs of the G- and D-stems also possessed detransitive derivatives. Transitive verbs of the G-, D- and C-stems lost their internal passives early on, and the passives of G- and D-verbs were encoded by their respective ...
Added: October 15, 2022
Bulakh M., Journal of Semitic Studies 2023 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. 235–325
North Argobba is a South Ethio-Semitic idiom used by Argobba communities in the villages of Shonke and T’ollaha (Oromiya zone of Amhara region of Ethiopia). One of the most striking features of North Argobba is the presence of the gutturals ʔ, ʕ, h, and ḥ as distinct phonemes. While the importance of this feature has ...
Added: November 9, 2021
Bulakh M., Acta linguistica Petropolitana 2020 Vol. 16 No. 1 P. 677–720
The paper gives a survey of verbs of falling in Tigrinya (an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia). The employment of each verb related to the situation of falling down is illustrated with phrasal examples. The Tigrinya data is further compared with Geez, a closely related extinct language. A special subsection deals with ...
Added: December 25, 2020
Lyavdansky A., , in: Studies in the Grammar and Lexicon of Neo-Aramaic.: Open Book Publishers, 2021. P. 415–442.
The aim of this paper is to present a basic word list for Christian Urmi Neo-Aramaic provided with etymologies and a discussion of problematic positions in the list. This study, which uses a variant of Swadesh list of 110 basic words, is the first research outcome after creating an electronic corpus of literary Christian Urmi based on the texts published in Soviet Union in 1929 - 1938 ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Open Book Publishers, 2021.
The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As ...
Added: October 19, 2020
Häberl C., Kuzin N., Loesov S. et al., Journal of Semitic Studies 2020 Vol. 65 No. 2 P. 473–493
Versions of the folktale Zêrka Zêra (in Kurdish)/Stērka Zerá (in Ṭuroyo) circulate throughout southeastern Anatolia. The story belongs to a widely-disseminated tale type, the ‘Bear’s Wife’, which concerns a young woman who is abducted by a bear (or other wilderness creature) and is forced to spawn and rear his children before escaping or being rescued. ...
Added: September 4, 2020
Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society. American Oriental Society 2019 Vol. 139 No. 4 P. 893–906
Thirty years after the appearance of Wolf Leslau’s Comparative Dictionary of
Geʿez, the present study aims at correcting and updating some of the entries of this
major tool of Semitic etymology. New data from Ugaritic, Akkadian, and especially
Modern South Arabian are prominent among the additions (particularly the
Soqotri lexical material acquired in the course of the many years ...
Added: February 20, 2020