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THE SAHO, THEIR LANGUAGE AND THEIR CULTURAL HERITAGE The Saho speak one of the nine national languages of modern Eritrea, and traditionally live south of Asmara and Massawa down to the Afar depression.
- Moreno Vergari
Saho is mainly spoken in the Ethiopian Provinces of Eritrea and Tigray, while Afar (Danakil) also represents the mother tongue of the majority of the citizens of the Republic of Jibouti besides being spoken in the Ethiopian Provinces of Eritrea, Tigray and Welo.
This chapter describes the Saaho (aka Saho) language spoken as a minority language both in Eritrea and in Northern Ethiopia. Together with Afar forni a dialect continuum, which is regarded as a NB for the full paper please contact the authors.
classification of Saho was soon rejected by Lottner and then by Reinisch who was a great pioneer of Cushitic linguistics. Reinisch classified Saho and ʿAfar as Cushitic but this correct classification had one negative result: for many decades the majority of “classical” Semitists (Zimmern was one of the
Saho is an East Cushitic language spoken in Eritrea and NE Tigray (Ethiopia). It closely resembles Afar. Surveys by the Eritrean Ministry of Education, and fieldwork by Morin, Banti and Vergari make it now possible to provide details about the complex set of isoglosses that characterise its different varieties.
- Moreno Vergari
Jan 1, 2017 · Abstract. Saho is an East Cushitic language spoken in Eritrea and NE Tigray (Ethiopia). It closely resembles Afar. Surveys by the Eritrean Ministry of Education, and fieldwork by Morin, Banti...
It is a grammatical sketch of the Afar and Saho languages, divided in five sections: Dialectologie [Dialectology, with phonological and morphological notes], Morpho-syntaxe [Morpho-syntax], Système nominal [Nominal system], Système verbal [Verbal system] and Syntaxe [Syntax].
