This study, Documentation and Grammatical Description of Zaysete, deals with the language of Zayse people which is called in Zaysete. Zaysete is a little documented East Omotic language spoken by 21,000 native speakers in the Southern part of Ethiopia. This study has two purposes. The first one is...
This dissertation presents an all-embracing grammatical description of Kulazngi, a dialect of Awngi, one of the Central Cushitic languages. It is spoken in the south west of Ethiopia mainly in Jawi woreda in Awi zone in Amhara Regional State and in some kebeles in Dangur Woreda in Benishangul Gumuz...
This thesis gives a descriptive account of The Grammar of Gofa, one of a little describedrnOmotic language spoken in South-west Ethiopia. It is mainly discussed within thernframwork of Basic Language Theory (BLT) which was introduced by Dixon (1997) andrnDryer (2006). The segmental phonology of the...
This thesis gives a descriptive account of The Grammar of Gofa, one of a little describedrnOmotic language spoken in South-west Ethiopia. It is mainly discussed within thernframwork of Basic Language Theory (BLT) which was introduced by Dixon (1997) andrnDryer (2006). The segmental phonology of the...
This thesis gives a descriptive account of The Grammar of Gofa, one of a little describedrnOmotic language spoken in South-west Ethiopia. It is mainly discussed within thernframwork of Basic Language Theory (BLT) which was introduced by Dixon (1997) andrnDryer (2006). The segmental phonology of the...
This dissertation compares lexical standardization in Amharic and Hadiyya. The selectedrnresearch sides were Addis Ababa and the Hadiyya Zone. Language data were gathered fromrntextbooks and dictionaries, which were supplemented by semi-structured interview and focusrngroup discussions.rnThe study...
This study mainly consists of a partial Critical Edition and Translation of the longrncollection of Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, known as Gädlä Ḥawaryat which is one ofrnthe earliest translations from Arabic into Ethiopic. The main objective of this research isrnto carry out Critical...
This study examines the grammatical description and provides a descriptive discussion, analysis of the whole grammar of the Girirra. It attempts to describe the core components of linguistics such as phonology, morphology, and syntax. To carry out this study, the Basic Linguistic Theory (Dixon...
This study is about the grammatical description of Saaho, a language spoken by the Irobrnpeople in the Northern part of Ethiopia. The description includes phonology, morphologyrnand syntax.rnIn the phonology part inventory of phonemes has been made with respect to segmentalrnand supra segmental...
Documentation is a field of linguistics, which is vital for safeguarding, reminding the past, source of data and has contribution for revitalization of languages as well as culture. Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State contains a huge variety of ethnic groups- as many as 56...
This thesis, which is part of the project of Dawuro language documentation, investigatesrnthe changes that lexical items of the earlier Dawuro kingdom have undergone.rnThe study collects, describes and classifies the lexical items into different semanticrncategories such as honorific, political and...
This study identifies and describes the linguistic taboos and their correspondingrneuphemistic expressions among the Oromo of Oromia Regional State. To conduct thernstudy, qualitative method was employed. The main instruments of data collection werernfocus group discussion, unstructured interview,...
Article 3.5.1of The Education and Training Policy (1994) of the Federal Democratic RepublicrnGovernment of Ethiopia has granted citizens with legal policy grounds to use their nativernlanguages as mediums of primary education. This legal initiative has resulted in the introductionrnof many local...
This study focuses on the documentation and grammatical description of Kara. Kara is the name of the people and the language. The Kara language, which belongs to Afro-asiatic phylum and Omotic family, is spoken by approximately 1,000 people. The data for documentation and grammatical description...