Highland East Cushitic languages
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| Highland East Cushitic | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Ethiopia |
| Genetic classification: |
Afro-Asiatic Cushitic East Cushitic Highland East Cushitic |
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Highland East Cushitic is a grouping of Afro-Asiatic languages in south central Ethiopia. The East Cushitic languages are divided two groupings, the other half being Lowland East Cushitic. [1]
Of the languages in this subgroup, Hadiyya and Libido are very closely related to each other, and also Kambaata and Alaba are very similar to each other.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
[edit] References
- Ethnologue entry for Highland East Cushitic languages
- Hudson, Grover. 1981. The Highland East Cushitic family vine. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 3.97-124.
- Hudson, Grover. 1988. The Highland Cushitic hypothesis. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa, 1984), Taddese Beyene, ed., 693-696. Birmingham, England: Elm Press.
- Hudson, Grover. 1989. Highland East Cushitic Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien 7). Hamburg: Buske.
- Hudson, Grover. 2005. Highland East Cushitic languages, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Keith Brown, ed., 294-298. Elsevier: Oxford.
- Hudson, Grover. 2007a. Highland East Cushitic morphology, Morphologies of Asian and African Languages, vol. 1, Alan S. Kaye, ed., 529-545. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
- Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses. Journal of Ethiopian Studies 14: 131-76.
- Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 52. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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