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The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes Afrasian ), also known as Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, are a language family (or "phylum") of about 400 languages spoken predominantly in West Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and parts of the Sahara and Sahel. [2] Over 500 million people are native speakers of an Afroasiatic ...
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v NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS azeb amha is a researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, in the Netherlands. Her publications includeagrammar of Maaleand papers onvarious aspects of Wolaitta and Zargulla. Currently she is investigating Oyda, a little-studied Omotic language spoken in south Ethiopia. zygmunt frajzyngier is Professor and fo...
The list below contains abbreviations used in various chapters of the volume. In some cases, the same symbol may refer to different categories, or the same category may be indicated by more than one symbol, in different chapters. Also, abbreviations may use either upper- or lower-case letters, depending on which chapter they appear in. ` ́ low ton...
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fgenc fin fm foc for freq from fut gen ger go gr hab Hebr. directional distal deixis direct object determiner phrase different subject distal (demonstrative) determinate dual durational habitual past (Dahalo) annexed state ( ́etat d’annexion) end-of-event marker free state ( ́etat libre) emphasis epenthetic Ethiopian Semitic exclusive expectational...
obl old Eg. opt OSA out p P p, (p) dialect) Late Egyptian locative logophoric pronoun masculine Mood-Aspect-Negation masculine medial (function similar to that of ‘converb’) middle voice middle modifier multiple reference Modern South Arabian neuter plural = nominal form negative negative-enclitic non-factual stem nominalizer nominalizing marker no...
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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern languages.
SERENGETI is developed, a massively multilingual language model that covers 517 African languages and language varieties and performs analyses of errors from the models, which allows the influence of language genealogy and linguistic similarity when the models are applied under zero-shot settings.
A language presumably of the Bole-Tangale group recently reported by Rudolf Leger. Kofa. This language, spoken near Song in Nigeria, is said to be related to Bura, but no data is available. Jilbe. An unclassified language of the Mandage (Kotoko) group recently reported. Lame. There appear to be two different but related languages with this name.
Afroasiatic (Afro-Asiatic), also called Afrasian or Hamito-Semitic or Semito-Hamitic, is a large language family. They are mainly spoken in Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel. There are around 300 Afroasiatic languages that are still spoken.
