Author: David Elias Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers ISBN: 9789004271197 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 302
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In The Tigre Language of Ginda?, Eritrea, David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language spoken in the town of Ginda?, Eritrea (East Africa). Basic aspects of grammar, as well as texts in phonetic transcription, are provided.
Author: David Elias Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004271201 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 302
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In The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea, David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of Gindaˁ in eastern Eritrea. While the language of Tigre is spoken by perhaps one million people in Eritrea and Sudan, the population of Gindaˁ is fewer than 50,000 people. Elias describes basic aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicography. In contrast to other dialects of Tigre, of which approximately a dozen have been identified, Tigre of Gindaˁ exhibits the only recorded examples in Tigre of gender-specific first person possessives, e.g. ʕənye ‘my eye’ (masc) vs. ʕənče ‘my eye’ (masc/fem), and a new form of the negative of the verb of existence, yahallanni ‘there is not’. Contact with Arabic and Tigrinya has resulted in numerous loanwords and a few biforms in Tigre of Gindaˁ.
Author: Stanley D. Brunn Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031181468 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 398
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This book addresses the changing contemporary language worlds in three major contexts. It first discusses how the language landscape maps of cities are changing as a result of increased migration, globalization and global media. These features are evident in place names and place name changes as well as the densities and frequencies of language spoken and used in texts. The second section discusses how the state itself is responding to both indigenous and heritage groups desiring to be included and represented in the state’s political landscapes and also expressions of art and culture. In the third section, the authors address a number of cutting-edge theses that are emerging in the linguistic geography and political words. These include the importance of gender, anthropogenetic discourse, the preservation of endangered languages and challenges to a state’s official language policy. Through including authors from nine different countries, who are writing about issues in twelve countries and their overlapping interests in language mapping, language usage and policy and visual representations, this book provides inspiring research into future topics at local, national, regional and international scales.
Author: Juan-Pablo Vita Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004445218 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 1677
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History of the Akkadian Language offers a detailed chronological survey of the oldest known Semitic language and one of history’s longest written records. The outcome is presented in 26 chapters written by 25 leading authors.
Author: Stefan Weninger Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110251582 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 1298
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The handbook The Semitic Languages offers a comprehensive reference tool for Semitic Linguistics in its broad sense. It is not restricted to comparative Grammar, although it covers also comparative aspects, including classification. By comprising a chapter on typology and sections with sociolinguistic focus and language contact, the conception of the book aims at a rather complete, unbiased description of the state of the art in Semitics. Articles on individual languages and dialects give basic facts as location, numbers of speakers, scripts, numbers of extant texts and their nature, attestation where appropriate, and salient features of the grammar and lexicon of the respective variety. The handbook is the most comprehensive treatment of the Semitic language family since many decades.
Author: Mohamed Kheir Omer Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1684716497 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Eritrea is located in northeast Africa on the Red Sea coast and boasts one of the oldest human settlements in the region. One-million-year-old human remains have been found in the Danakil Depression in the country, which is home to one of the oldest-written scripts in sub-Saharan Africa: Ge'ez. Eritrea was also pioneer in multi-party democracy in Africa and had a democratic constitution based on United Nations principles in 1952. But it is also home to one of the earliest armed liberation movements in Africa - a conflict that Mohamed Kheir Omer witnessed firsthand, having grown up in Eritrea as a member of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF). In this book, he traces the history of the country, exploring how ethnicity, religion, geography, colonialism, and other factors have shaped its fate - and what must be done to ensure its people enjoy a brighter future. The history of Eritrea is similar to others on the continent, and its people continue to struggle to build a just, democratic, and inclusive country.
Author: David Pool Publisher: Minority Rights Group ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 38
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Emerging from a devastating 30-year war, the new Eritrean government's efforts to reconstruct its multi-ethnic society and transform its economy have been hailed as a model of nation-building. MRG's Report discusses the drawing up of a constitution which will aim to ensure a variety of rights. However, the question remains, how far will these rights be guaranteed in practice? For example, how far can Eritrea protect the rights of minorities and. At the same tine, promote the unity of the state? In seeking to answer these issues, the Report's author also examines how far the new government - whose members are overwhelmingly former freedom-fighters - can be said to be governing for all Eritrea's people? The Report pinpoints a series of important questions facing the government, from the environment and land rights, with the potential problems of scare land being given to returning refugees; on the extent to which women's liberation, a battle largely won by female freedom-fighters, will be upheld in peacetime; to the challenge of seeking to ensure that the parity of minority languages is recognized in education. (Adapted from Publisher's Abstract).
Author: I. M. Lewis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1315308177 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 284
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Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples. Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows: Physical Environment Linguistic Data Demography History & Traditions of Origin Nomenclature Grouping Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice Economy & Trade Domestic Architecture Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo. The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
Author: DK Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0756673097 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 658
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Whatever you need to know about the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, have the facts at your fingertips with this complete gazeteer of the globe. Each of the world's 192 nations is surveyed and mapped, including full coverage of the world's newest nations. Informative profiles of overseas dependencies and territories, every fact and stat, plus a full glossary, makes this comprehensive and browser-friendly guide a must-have for any reference collection.
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