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Tigrinya
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 expanded Ethiopic syllabary. The phonological system of Tigrinya contains pharyngeals and laryngeals. The striking feature of the nominal morphology is preservation of the broken plural. The main innovation in the domain of the verbal morphology is the emerging of a new verbal category, based on the morphological converb forms, but having the function of simple perfective.
Bulakh M., , in: From Aksum to Lalibäla. The Myth of the “Dark Ages” of Eritrean and Ethiopian History (7th–13th centuries).: Napoli: UniorPress, 2026. P. 53–69.
It is generally acknowledged that Old Ethiopic (Gəʕz) was a spoken language in the Aksumite kingdom, and that it enjoyed high status both politically and culturally. Likewise, it is generally acknowledged that Old Ethiopic ceased to be a spoken language before the Solomonic dynasty came to power. However, both the circumstances that led to its ...
Added: March 12, 2026
Gusarova E., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 Vol. 5 P. 191–200
Ethiopia is one of the most ethnically heterogeneous countries of the African continent. The overwhelming majority of its peoples have no literary tradition of their own. As a result, their lifestyle, manners and customs can be examined through field researches with only few exceptions. In this connection the Amhara and the Təgräy ethnic groups, who ...
Added: December 29, 2025
Ufimtsev A., Замесина С. Н., Сравнительная политика 2025 Т. 16 № 1 С. 68–88
This article explores the integration of new African BRICS members into the scientific and educational cooperation within BRICS. Despite significant criticism regarding the still limited scope of scientific collaborations between BRICS countries, there is a steadily growing number of interaction formats in the fields of science, technology, and education. To provide an accurate assessment, the ...
Added: December 8, 2025
Kogan L., Journal of the American Oriental Society, США 2025 Vol. 145 No. 3 P. 623–634
Arab lexicographers rarely attempted to search for a foreign origin of Arabic words, trying instead to derive them—not very persuasively—from autochthonous Arabic roots. Known exceptions mostly involve Persian, a foreign language par excellence for most Arab philologists. This article explores this phenomenon in a different linguistic domain, viz., loanwords from Classical Ethiopic (Geʿez), the language ...
Added: September 19, 2025
Денисова Т. С., Костелянец С. В., Азия и Африка сегодня 2025 № 6 С. 35–44
Ethiopia is home to numerous ethnic groups, each with distinct languages, customs, and traditions. While this ethnic diversity has shaped the country’s rich cultural heritage, it has also fueled domestic political tensions under the legacy of “divide and rule” policies perpetuated by successive regimes, including post-imperial rulers (i.e., those after 1974). These tensions often escalate ...
Added: September 14, 2025
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
Degterev D. A., Проблемы национальной стратегии 2024 № 5(86) С. 132–149
The article analyses the results of the first year of Ethiopia’s participation in the BRICS activities. The author conducts an applied analysis of the country’s foreign policy stances on certain issues (inter alia its voting record at the UN General Assembly) before and after joining the association. The focus is on an assessment of Addis ...
Added: January 25, 2025
Bulakh M., Journal of Near Eastern studies 2024 Vol. 83 No. 1 P. 77–89
ʔAbbā Garimā I (AG I) is among the oldest extant manuscripts written in Old Ethiopic (Geez). A recent radiocarbon analysis dates AG I to the 6th–7th cent. AD. The present study provides additional evidence for the early dating of the manuscript: it preserves all gutturals and sibilants intact (in contrast to post-Aksumite manuscripts, characterized by ...
Added: December 18, 2023
Kogan L., Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 2025 Vol. 175 No. 1 P. 29–59
Added: November 9, 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 ...
Added: July 7, 2023
Amsalu T., Bulakh M., , in: The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages.: Oxford University Press, 2023. Ch. 24 P. 500–531.
Added: June 27, 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