Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan. They form...
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of Early Bronze Age origins of Semitic languages and the reported age estimate (2.8 kya) of the Ethio-Semitic language group. They are also consistent...
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characters. Tigrinya (ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña), sometimes spelled Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region...
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Geʽez (redirect from Geez language)
ancestor of modern Ethio-Semitic languages but became a separate language early on from another hypothetical unattested common language. /æ/ in the Amharic...
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Amharic (redirect from Amharic (language))
word order and gutturals typical of Semitic languages, Cushitic influences shared with other Ethio-Semitic languages (especially those of the Southern branch)...
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Igziabeher (category Articles containing Amharic-language text)
nation" or "tribe", i.e. God, in the Ethiopic or Ge'ez language, as well as modern Ethio-semitic languages including Amharic. Igziabher in Ge'ez is composed...
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Negus (category Articles containing Ge'ez-language text)
the royal title as well. Sometime during the development of the Ethio-Semitic language family "m-l-k," the original triconsonantal root for king, was elevated...
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Proto-Afroasiatic homeland (category Afroasiatic languages)
BC, after which Egyptian and the Semitic languages are firmly attested. However, in all likelihood these languages began to diverge well before this...
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Tigre (also written Tigré; ትግሬ, təgré or ትግራይት tigrayit) is an Ethio-Semitic language spoken in the Horn of Africa, primarily by the Tigre people of Eritrea...
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Highland East Cushitic languages show parallels in their phonology to the historical development of the southern Ethio-Semitic languages, in particular those...
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The Gafat language is an extinct Ethio-Semitic language once spoken by the Gafat people along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia, and later, speakers pushed south...
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genealogical position of Arabic within the group of the Semitic languages has long been a problem. Semitic languages were confined in a relatively small geographic...
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Soddo Gurage people (section Language)
customs, and speak similar languages. This is further augmented by the fact that they both belong to the South Ethio-Semitic language branch family and amongst...
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Subject–object–verb word order (redirect from SOV language)
Tulu) Dogon languages Elamite Ethio-Semitic languages (Amharic, Tigre, Tigrinya) Gothic Ancient Greek Haida Hajong Hittite Hopi Ijoid languages Itelmen Japonic...
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Ethiopians (category CS1 Norwegian-language sources (no))
paper goes on to say that this coincides with the introduction of Ethio-Semitic languages into the region. Gallego Llorente, M et al. (2015) similarly discovered...
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Sultanate of Ifat (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
was Lingua franca but the inhabitants of Ifat spoke Cushitic and Ethio-Semitic languages. Ifat or Yifat, once the easternmost district of Shewa Sultanate...
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Population history of Egypt (section Language element)
languages of west and central Africa, the Cushitic languages of northeast Africa, and the Ethio-Semitic languages, which are found in Ethiopia and Eritrea. There...
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borrowed into Ethio-Semitic as Tedrus which seeped into Adal through the official use of the Harari language, an Ethio-Semitic language heavily interacted...
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Amhara people (category Articles containing Amharic-language text)
South Ethio-Semitic language, along with Gurage, Argobba and others. Some time before the 1st century AD, the North and South branches of Ethio-Semitic diverged...
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the traditional law of the Somali. At the same time, he studied Ethio-Semitic languages under Francesco Gallina, and Arabic and Islamic studies under Carlo...
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Labialization (category CS1 Slovenian-language sources (sl))
Indo-European languages; and it survives in Latin and some Romance languages. It is also found in the Cushitic and Ethio-Semitic languages. American English...
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Ethiopia and Eritrea, including the Ethio-Semitic, Cushitic and Omotic languages but not the Nilo-Saharan languages. Others scholars have since pointed...
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to the Eastern Gurage languages, Zay, and Silt'e, all of whom are believed to be linked to the now extinct Semitic Harla language. Locals or natives of...
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event, include the introduction of South Semitic languages to Ethiopia, replacing the native Cushitic languages, and the adoption of Ancient South Arabian...
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Habesha peoples (category Semitic-speaking peoples)
indigenous languages of Southern Arabia and the Amharic and Tigrinya languages of Ethiopia belong to the large branch of South Semitic languages which in...
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scholar of ancient Ethiopian Semitic languages and of African and Ethiopian civilizations. He founded the Institute of Semitic Studies, which he directs...
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Harla people (section Language)
and Djibouti. They spoke the now-extinct Harla language, which belonged to either the Cushitic or Semitic branches of the Afroasiatic family. The Harla...
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Kitfo (category Articles containing Amharic-language text)
clarified butter infused with herbs and spices). The word comes from the Ethio-Semitic root k-t-f, meaning "to chop finely; mince." Kitfo cooked lightly rare...
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Geʽez script (category Semitic writing systems)
Ethiopian Semitic languages. This differs somewhat from the conventions of the International Phonetic Alphabet. See the articles on the individual languages for...
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Ethiopian studies (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
Afro-Asiatic languages and cultures of Ethiopia and Eritrea besides those of Ethio-semitic derivation; the nation's non-Afro-Asiatic languages and cultures...
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