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	Argobba language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Argobba is an Ethiopic language that spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa.
		It belongs to the South-Ethio Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages.
		The language is spoken in a number of pockets and has at least four regional variations (dialects): Harar (extinct), Aliyu Amba, Showa Robit and Shonke.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Argobba_language (180 words)

	Semitic languages - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Semitic languages were among the earliest to attain a written form, with Akkadian writing beginning in the middle of the third millennium BC.
		Akkadian became the dominant literary language of the Fertile Crescent, using the cuneiform script they adapted from the Sumerians, while the sparsely attested Eblaite disappeared with the city, and Amorite is attested only from proper names.
		A number of Gurage languages are to be found in the mountainous center of Ethiopia, while Harari is restricted to the city of Harar; Tigre, spoken in the Eritrean highlands, has over a million speakers.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Semitic_language (1580 words)

	Languages of Ethiopia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ethiopia has many indigenous languages (some 84 according to SIL), most of them Afro-Asiatic (Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic) and Nilo-Saharan.
		English is the most widely spoken foreign language and is taught in all secondary schools.
		Amharic was the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by local languages such as Oromifa and Tigrinya.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ethiopian_languages (112 words)

	Ebook More Info -Aramaic language - Free For You. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As the language grew in importance, it came to be spoken throughout the Mediterranean coastal area of the Levant, and spread east of the Tigris.
		It was the language of the city-states of Damascus, Hamath and Arpad (Syria).
		Nabataean Aramaic is the language of the Arab kingdom of Petra.
	aramaic.language.en.lmoney.org (7274 words)

	Argobba Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Argobba refers both to the language and the people that live in central Ethiopia along the western escarpment of the Rift valley, with their own language and culture.
		This is one of the main reasons why the Argobba have been a target of discrimination by earlier regimes particularly that of the so called "Solomonide dynasty".
		This is one of the main reasons that most of the Argobba people are not speakers of the Argobba language.
	www.argobba.com (347 words)

	South Semitic - Wikipedia Light!
		Semitic itself is considered a branch of the larger Afro-Asiatic language family found, as indicated in the name, both in (northern and eastern) Africa and (southwestern) Asia.
		Eritrea's main languages are mainly Tigrinya and Tigre which are North Ethiopic languagesm while Amharic (South Ethiopic) is the main language spoken in Ethiopia (along with Tigrinya in the northern province of [[Tigray RegionTigray).
		These languages are spoken mainly by tiny minority populations on the Arabian peninsula in Yemen and Oman.
	godseye.com /wiki/index.php?title=South_Semitic_languages (395 words)

	Amhara people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Some time in the late middle ages, the Amharic and Tigrinya languages began to be differentiated.
		The expanded use of Amharic language results mostly from its being the language of the court, and was gradually adopted out of usefulness by many unrelated groups, who then became known as "Amhara" no matter what their ethnic origin.
		The language, Amharic, serves as the center of this melting process in spite of the fact that it is difficult to conceive of a language without the existence of a corresponding distinct ethnic group speaking it as a mother tongue.
	tso.fatechan.net /nph-proxy.cgi/000110A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amhara_people (1246 words)

	Argobba: UNESCO-CI
		The Argobba language is spoken by the Argobba ethnic group.
		The Argobba language is being replaced by Amharic and Oromo and nearly extinct.
		However, they use their language whenever they are together in groups, and when they intend to identify themselves as distinct.
	portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=10379&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (240 words)

	Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Peoples ~a HREF="/et_00_00.html#et_02_04"
		Speakers of East Cushitic languages are found in the highlands and lowlands of the center and south, and other Cushitic speakers in the center and north; Omotic speakers live in the south; and Nilo-Saharan speakers in the southwest and west along the border with Sudan.
		Gemu-Gofa is a language spoken by perhaps forty autonomous groups, estimated at 295,000 in 1970 in the Gemu highlands.
		Language policy changed under the Mengistu regime, which attempted to reverse the trend by dropping Amharic as a requirement in schools for non-Amharic speakers.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/etsave/et_02_04.html (5506 words)

	Ethiopian Languages - Semitic, Cushitic, Omotic and Nilo-Saharan
		The Cushitic languages are mostly spoken in central, southern and eastern Ethiopia (mainly in Afar, Oromia and Somali regions).
		The Omotic languages are predominantly spoken between the Lakes of southern Rift Valley and the Omo River.
		The Nilo-Saharan languages are largely spoken in the western part of the country along the border with Sudan (mainly in Gambella and Benshangul regions).
	www.ethiopiantreasures.toucansurf.com /pages/language.htm (319 words)

	Ethnologue: Ethiopia
		ARGOBBA [AGJ] 1,600 near Ankober speak Argobba at home (1991 SIL); 21,600 in the ethnic group near Ankober and 14,500 in the ethnic group near Harar.
		The former language was possibly Eastern Sudanic or an Awngi variety (Bender 1983), or Cushitic (Bender, Bowen, Cooper and Ferguson 1976:14).
		Yemsa is the primary language of the ethnic group.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Ethi.html (3875 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:AGJ
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		10,860 mother tongue speakers, 3,236 second language speakers, 62,831 in the ethnic group.
		It is reported that the 'purest' Argobba is spoken in Shonke and T'olaha.
	www.ethnologue.com /14/show_language.asp?code=AGJ (125 words)

	Amharic Language - MavicaNET
		language of Ethiopia belonging to the South Ethiopic group of South Semitic languages, which, in turn, belong to the Semitic subfamily of the Afroasiatic family of languages (see Afroasiatic languages).
		Amharic is the national language of the country of Ethiopia, which has a population of approximately 58 million people.
		The introduction covers the origins and development of the Ethio-Semitic languages in what was probably the best theory arrived at at the time of publication (1978), and may still be the best so far.
	www.mavicanet.com /directory/fin/8494.html (276 words)

	Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach"
		Not only are the languages spoken by most Ethiopians genetically related, but (as Ferguson 1970 and 1976 has shown) the phenomenon of diffusion of traits over a large area has resulted in even more sharing of common features than one would expect among languages of three coordinate branches of a super-family.
		The conquering Semitic-speakers spoke a language which was perhaps only four to seven centuries removed from a common origin with Giiz, the classical language of the Aksum Empire and of Medieval Ethiopian religion and literature.
		The Argobba community near Harer in eastern Ethiopia seems to have given up the dialect except in some songs, which are no longer well-understood (Sidney Waldron, p.c., 1975).
	www.abyssiniagateway.net /info/bender.html (1976 words)

	Semitic Languages (and the Phoenician language)
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these many Middle Easter countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		Ancient languages spoken by non-Arab population of these countries continue to survive in the dialects/languages of everyday life and the roots of the older languages of the Phoenician, Aramaic, Syriac, Assyrian, Coptic...etc. are still evident.
		It diverged from the South Arabian languages around the beginning of the Christian era, reaching its greatest extension in the 4th century AD, when it was spoken especially in the kingdom of Aksum on either side of the present-day border of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	phoenicia.org /semlang.html (2823 words)

	Language
		Language families can be divided into smaller phylogenetic units, conventionally referred to as branches of the family, because the history of a language family is often represented as a tree diagram.
		Languages that cannot be reliably classified into any family are known as language isolates.
		A language isolated in its own branch within a family, such as Greek within Indo-European, is often also called an isolate, but such cases are usually clarified.
	www.angindia.com /biographyland/biography_language.html (454 words)

	Ithiopia Series-Amharic, the language of Ethiopia
		From the Central is the Arabo-Canaanite and the Aramaic (Language of Yahshua) From the Ethio-semitic North came Ge'ez and the Tigre Tigrinya.
		The conquering Semitic-speakers spoke a language which was perhaps only four to seven centuries removed from a common origin with Ge'ez, the classical language of the Aksum Empire and of Medieval Ethiopian religion and literature.
		As the national language, Amharic is spoken in every province, but the indigenous areas are those radiating out from the old province of Amhara in southwestern Wello to Wello, Begemidir,Gojjam, and into Shewa and Harerge.
	www.alumbo.com /article/14552-Ithiopia-Series-Amharic-the-language-of-Ethiopia.html (1370 words)

	Staff Profile
		An Ethiopian Language on the Verge of Extinction, Kemantney: A Preliminary Sociolinguistic Survey.
		Gwama: A Least-Known and Endangered Language of Ethiopia.
		The Lexicon in a Dying Language: The case of Kemantney.
	www.aau.edu.et /faculties/linguistics/staffp.htm (1051 words)

	Amharic language
		Language Classification: Semitic (cushitic) language which is Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Asia, including Arabic, Amharic, Hebrew, and Tigrinya.
		Amharic Dialects: Argobba is a dialect spoken by Muslim population.
		Amharic Language Enriched by: The Cushitic tongues influenced Amharic grammar and vocabulary.
	www.online-languagetranslators.com /amharic_language.htm (361 words)

	E-S languages
		Amharic - spoken in the central and southern highlands of Ethiopia and in the capital city of Addis Ababa.
		Argobba -endangered language, spoken in a few scattered regions in Ankober north of Addis Ababa.
		Harari - (aka Ge Sinaan by its speakers or Adare/Adarinya) spoken in the walled Muslim city of Harar in eastern Ethiopia.
	ling.ucsd.edu /~rose/E-S_languages.html (157 words)

	Semitic languages
		Guajara in other languages: Spanish, Deutsch, French, Italian...
		The term Semitic languages is the traditional way of refering to those languages which constitute the Northeastern subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic languages.
		In linguistics, it has gradually come to be realized that "Semitic" is a term of some heated cultural objection and is thus no longer considered perfectly politically correct.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/se/semitic_languages.html (167 words)

	amharic language translation, language of ethiopia, semitic language, Amharic የአማርኛ ...
		Amharic (አማርኛ;) is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia.
		It is also the official or working language of several of the states within the federal system, including Amhara and the multi-ethnic Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples region.
		Outside Ethiopia, Amharic is the language of some 2.7 million emigrants (notably in Egypt, Israel and Sweden), and is spoken in Eritrea by Eritrean deportees from Ethiopia.
	www.ethiotrans.com /amharic2.htm (854 words)

	Web resources for Semitic (African) languages
		There are some 20 Semitic languages in Africa, including at least 5 different varieties of spoken Arabic.
		Linguistic analyses: the non-Bantu languages of north-eastern Africa.
		Sociolinguistic survey report of the Argobba language of Ethiopia (PDF).
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/semitic.html (489 words)

	Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 42, no. 3
		Competing approaches to the concept of “language area” are evaluated, arriving at the conclusion that the existence of a language area may be conclusively demonstrated only in the presence of genetically unrelated languages and of a multilateral convergence process.
		It is further argued that the notion of an “Ethiopian language area” is false.
		Although the Ethiopian languages display numerous common features, these are either retentions from a common Afro-Asiatic stock or the result of long-standing unilateral contact, followed by language loss and substratal retention, but without multilateral convergence towards a common model.
	www.indiana.edu /~anthling/v42-3.html (417 words)

	Ebook More Info -Estrangela - Free For You. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Syriac alphabet is a writing system used to write the Syriac language from around the 2nd century BC.
		It is one of the Semitic languages abjad s directly descending from the Proto-Canaanite alphabet.
		When Arabic language began to be the dominant spoken language in the Fertile Crescent, texts were often written in Arabic with the Syriac script.
	lmoney.org /en/Estrangela (2143 words)

	Amorite peee.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		mōrî, Egyptian language Amar, Akkadian language Tidnum or Amurrūm (corresponding to Sumerian language MAR.TU or Martu) refers to a Semitic language people who occupied the country west of the Euphrates from the second half of the 3rd millennium BC, and also the god they worshipped (see Amurru).
		In the Sumerian spelling MAR.TU, the name is as old as the first Babylonian dynasty, but from the 15th century BC onwards, its syllabic equivalent Amurru is applied primarily to the land extending north of Canaan as far as Kadesh on the Orontes River.
		Presumably their original tongue was a northwest Semitic dialect (see Amorite language.) The main sources for our extremely limited knowledge about the language are proper names, not Akkadian in style, that are preserved in such texts.
	www.peee.org /en/Amorite (1272 words)

	HRELP - David Appleyard
		David Appleyard's research interests cover a range of languages of the Djibouti-Eritrea-Ethiopia-Somalia region and focus primarily on the Semitic and Cushitic languages of the area.
		From the Semitic languages of the region, he has worked on Amharic, but also on minor languages such as Argobba and Harari, which are facing extinction.
		Modern Aramaic, Modern South Arabian, and the so-called "Gurage" languages of Ethiopia) are both in the short and the long term under threat, as are some of minor Cushitic and Berber languages.
	www.hrelp.org /aboutus/staff/index.php?cd=appleyard (340 words)

	Amhbiblio.htm
		Following is an annotated bibliography of publications useful for learning the Amharic language and about the Amharic language.
		Chapters on the major languages, including Amharic, government language policy, language in education, the spread of Amharic, etc. The research was done in the early seventies but much of it is still relevant.]
		Amharic and Argobba, in The Semitic Languages,edited by Robert Hetzron, pp.
	www.msu.edu /~hudson/Amhbiblio.htm (628 words)

	EveryTongue.com Language Recordings Main page
		Here is the list of languages that you can hear if you order the cassette tape.
		Here is a list of the languages that do not have a recording.
		Here you can listen to a recording in a language you know and then listen to the same recording in a language that you want to learn.
	www.everytongue.com (531 words)

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