Cushitic
Cushitic , group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family of languages. See Afroasiatic languages .
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Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...deals with Semitic and to a much lesser extent with other Afroasiatic languages, and only occasionally with other language families like...of J. Kurylowicz. This situation is deplorable since Afroasiatic languages offer some unique opportunities in this regard, e.g...
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Studies in semitic and afroasiatic linguistics presented to Gene B. Gragg.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 113 words
; ...retirement of Gragg from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. Two of them consider links between different Afroasiatic languages, but the others are devoted to Semitic languages. Among the topics are a functional history of writing, a New Masoretic...
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The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. (Reviews of Books).
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Encyclopedic Reference Grammar. By PAUL NEWMAN. Yale Language Series. New Haven: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2000. Pp. xl + 760. Afroasiatic languages number well into the hundreds, but reference grammars about them are few. This is all the more evident for the Chadic...
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Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...Sidamo and Omotic Kafa. As a result, Amharic has acquired considerable lexical and grammatical similarity with these other Afroasiatic languages, but shows surprisingly little of the grammatical regularization and thorough paradigm leveling often associated with...
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Questions de linguistique semitique: racine et lexeme: histoire de la recherche 1940-2000.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Society 5 [1963-1965]: 63-85) and Christopher Ehret ( The Origins of the Third Consonants in Semitic Roots, Journal of Afroasiatic Languages 1 [1989]: 109-202). As has been pointed out by Andrzej Zaborski with whom I am in firm agreement: Many of Ehret's comparisons...
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Fanning the flames in Georgia: an American defense of Georgia could risk nuclear war, yet the Bush administration seems determined to turn this brush fire into a Cuban Missile Crisis-like stare-down.(WORLD)(Viewpoint essay)
Magazine article from: The New American; 10/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Seas, the rugged Caucasus Mountains, where Europe and Asia meet, is a rough neighborhood. Home to dozens of different languages belonging to three entirely separate stocks--the Indo-European, Altaic, and Caucasian proper--and two major world religions, Christianity...
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HLA-A allele frequency and haplotype distribution in the dravidian tribal communities of south India
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Human Genetics; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...the east, the Indian Ocean on the south and the Arabian Sea on the west. Majority of the people of southern India speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. The tribal communities of South India are considered to be the original inhabitants...
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ASK THE GLOBE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/27/1991; 88 words
; ...and Kanarese. However, more than 50 other languages are also spoken there. Throughout India there are some 872 prevalent languages, belonging to four major language groups: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, and Munda. Hindi (which is Indo-Aryan) is the official...
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BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRIN HOSTS INT'L CONF ON LIBRARIES
Newspaper article from: Info-Prod Research (Middle East); 11/20/2006; 114 words
; ...first milestone towards building this digital library with a free-to- read searchable collection of one million books in various languages belonging to diversified cultures and civilizations available to people world wide over the Internet.
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EGYPT: BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRIN HOSTS INT'L CONF ON LIBRARIES.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 11/20/2006; 113 words
; ...first milestone towards building this digital library with a free-to- read searchable collection of one million books in various languages belonging to diversified cultures and civilizations available to people world wide over the Internet.
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Eritreans
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...LOCATION: Eritrea (Horn of Africa) POPULATION: 3 million LANGUAGE: Tigrinya; Tigre; Northern Cushitic Beja; Eastern Cushitic Afar and Saho; Central Cushitic Bilen Agew; Chari-Nile, Kunama; Nera; Ethio-Semitic Amharic (Amharic, Amharinya); Indo-European...
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Afro-Asiatic languages
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...Afro-Asiatic are Semitic , Berber, Egyptian , Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic. Berber languages...Egypt and in parts of the western Sahara. Cushitic consists of some 30 languages spoken...Omotic, formerly classified as part of Cushitic, is a cluster of perhaps more than 30...
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Hamitic
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Hamitic of or denoting a hypothetical language family formerly proposed to comprise Berber, ancient Egyptian, the Cushitic languages, and the Chadic languages. These are now recognized as independent branches of the Afro-Asiatic family.
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Amhara
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...Amhara, who have dominated the history of their country, descend from ancient Semitic conquerors who mingled with indigenous Cushitic peoples. They are agriculturalists and place great value on land ownership.For more information on Amhara, visit Britannica...
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Somali
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...member of a large group of people occupying all of Somalia and parts of Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Kenya. Their language is of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic family. Numbering more than seven million, the Somalis are divided into northern, central, and southern...
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