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	Imperial Ethiopia - Ethiopian Languages
		In Ethiopia, this language is Amharic, a Semitic tongue.
		The Omotic languages of the Omo River Valley are Afro-Asiatic but closely related to the Cushitic languages.
		In multi-ethnic nations such as Ethiopia, the use of an "official" language is sometimes criticised on the basis of its representing only a certain part of the population, with the minority populations reacting against the dominance of a foreign tongue.
	www.imperialethiopia.org /languages.htm (344 words)

	Afro-Asiatic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia.
		The Ongota language is often considered to be Afro-Asiatic, but its classification within the family remains controversial (partly for lack of data).
		Tonal languages are found in the Omotic, Chadic, and South and East Cushitic branches of Afro-Asiatic, according to Ehret (1996).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afro-Asiatic_languages (1034 words)

	Afroasiatic languages. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The writings in Ugaritic are important in the study of the Hebrew language and biblical literature of the early period.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified with the Cushitic and are spoken by perhaps 3 million people who live in SW Ethiopia in the Omo River region.
		Dizi, Gonga, Gimira, Janjero, Kaficho, and Walamo are among the Omotic languages.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Afroasia.html (2033 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)

	Omotic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Omotic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages spoken in northeast Africa.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified as a subgroup of the Cushitic languages, but as more data became available, Harold Fleming proposed that they constituted a separate subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and this has become the prevalent view.
		Whether the old Cushitic language family should be split in two in this way is still controversial among some linguists; others, conversely, regard its differences from other Afro-Asiatic languages as so great as to cast doubt on its very inclusion in the phylum, and regard it as being, at closest, the phylum's most distant branch.
	1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/o/om/omotic_languages.html (187 words)

	WORLD ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Ethiopia - Omotic Language Groups (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gemu-Gofa is a language spoken by perhaps forty autonomous groups, estimated at 295,000 in 1970 in the Gemu highlands.
		The relatively limited area in which they live, the diversity of their languages, and other linguistic considerations suggest that the ancestors of the speakers of Omotic languages have been in place for many millennia.
		Omotic speakers have been influenced linguistically and otherwise by Nilo-Saharan groups to the west and by East Cushitic groups surrounding them.
	encyclopaedic.net /world/ethiopia/51.php (480 words)

	Cushitic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cushitic languages are a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic languages, named after the Biblical figure Cush by analogy with Semitic.
		The most prominent language is Oromo with about 35 million speakers, followed by Somali (in Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya) with about 20 million speakers, Sidamo (in Ethiopia) with about 2 million speakers, and Afar (in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti) with about 1.5 million speakers.
		Cushitic was traditionally seen as also including the Omotic languages, then called West Cushitic, but this view has been largely abandoned; the Omotic languages are now considered an isolated branch of Afro-Asiatic.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cushitic_languages (292 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.
		It was the empire's official language and is still widely used in government and in the capital despite the Mengistu regime's changes in language policy.
		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)

	Afro-Asiatic languages explained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Map showing the distribution of Afro-Asiatic languages The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family of about 240 languages and 285 million people widespread throughout North Africa, East Africa, the Sahel, and Southwest Asia.
		Joseph H. Greenberg (1950) strongly confirmed Cohen's rejection of "Hamitic", added (and sub-classified) the Chadic languages, and proposed the new name Afro-Asiatic for the family; his classification of it came to be almost universally accepted.
		There is little agreement on the subclassification of the five or six branches mentioned; however, Christopher Ehret (1979), Harold Fleming (1981), and Joseph H. Greenberg (1981) all agree that Omotic was the first branch to split from the rest.
	www.wordspider.net /af/afro-asiatic-languages.html (1284 words)

	LINGUIST List 10.1836: Australian, Omotic, & Tasmanian Langs
		Worora is a polysynthetic language with overarching concord, reminiscent of that in Bantu languages.
		Lionel Bender, University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale Omotic is the least-known family in the Afrasian (=Afroasiatic or "Hamito-Semitic") phylum.
		Omotic is located entirely within southwest and west Ethiopia, on both sides of the Omo River, from which it takes its name.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/10/10-1836.html (1246 words)

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		Their most important language is Amharic which was the empire's official language and is still widely used in the government in the capital despite the Mengistu regime's changes in language policy.
		East Cushitic languages are in the highlands and lowlands of center and southern Ethiopia, and other Cushitic speakers are in the Center and North.
		The diversity of their languages, and other linguistic considerations suggest that the ancestors of the speakers of Omotic languages have been in place for many millennia.
	www.nubianvoyage.com /Ethiopia.html (739 words)

	Web resources for Omotic languages
		There are up to 30 Omotic languages, all of which are spoken in southern and south-western Ethiopia.
		Hayward, Richard J. Omotic: the 'empty quarter' of Afroasiatic linguistics.
		Sociolinguistic survey report of the Omotic languages Sheko and Yem (PDF).
	goto.glocalnet.net /maho/webresources/omotic.html (348 words)

	Exerts From "Amharic Verb Morphology: A Generative Approach"
		The eight named languages might be considered the major Ethiopian languages: they account for about 5/6 of the total population, and no other language exceeds 500,000 speakers.
		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.
	www.abyssiniagateway.net /info/bender.html (1976 words)

	Cushitic Branch
		There are 47 Cushitic languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya, and Djibouti -- countries located in the Horn of Africa.
		All the remaining languages have populations of under 100,000 speakers, and some of them are small enough to be endangered or on the brink of extinction.
		Oromo is a trade languages used for official government purposes, by the public media, in commerce, in the educational system up to the eighth grade, and in a variety of literature.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july/cushtic.html (481 words)

	July - The Afro-Asiatic language family (Berber, Chadic, Cushtic, and Omotic languages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		-The Chadic branch consists of about 150 languages spoken south of the Sahara desert and stretching from the south of Niger, across northern Nigeria, northern Cameroon and south-central Chad...
		- Eyptian is an extinct language that was spoken in the Nile valley of Egypt.
		It constitutes a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, along with Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, and Semitic branches...
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/july (218 words)

	Omotic languages - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Apart from terminology, this differs from Harold Fleming's earlier (1976) classification in including the Mao languages, whose affiliation had originally been controversial, and in abolishing the "Gimojan" group.
		The Omotic languages were formerly classified as the West subgroup of the Cushitic languages, but as more data became available, Harold Fleming proposed that they constituted a separate subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and this has become the prevalent view.
		They should not be confused with the unrelated Omotik language, a nearly extinct Nilotic language of Tanzania with a similar name.
	www.unipedia.info /Omotic.html (238 words)

	Afro-Asiatic languages
		The Afro-Asiatic languages are a language family widespread throughout North Africa and Southwest Asia.
		All languages except the Semitic ones were lumped together as Hamitic.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ha/Hamitic_languages.html (68 words)

	LINGUIST List 11.461: African Linguistics
		Nowadays, Mandinkakan is one of the major languages used both by individuals with different historical and linguistic background, and by the radio stations in The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea Bissau.
		Despite the important scope of the language in these countries, its sound system is not well studied and practical work dealing with its pronunciation and phonemic inventory is rare.
		The author is a native speaker of the language, and the research for the dictionary has also included work with other native speakers.
	www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/11/11-461.html (1058 words)

	Afroasiatic languages -> The Role of Semitic Languages in the Development of Writing Systems on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was adopted by the Akkadians (see Akkad) c.2500 BC from the Sumerians (see Sumer), whose language was not a Semitic tongue.
		The Sumerian cuneiform goes back to about 4000 BC, and it was used by various peoples until about the 2d cent.
		This alphabet was taken to Ethiopia during the first millennium BC and is still used there, in modified form, for the Ethiopic languages.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Afroasia_TheRoleofSemiticLanguagesintheDevelopmentofWritingSystems.asp (896 words)

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		Woudhuizen (the author of 'The Language of the Sea Peoples' and of 'Linguistica Tyrrhenica I') has now published: 'Linguistica Tyrrhenica II: The Etruscan Liturgical Calendar from Capua, Addenda and corrigenda ad volumen I', in which he further explores the relationship of Etruscan with the Indo-European languages of Asia Minor.
		Omotic, in my Leiden oratie The Classification of Chadic within >Afroasiatic, which dates from 1980 (!) -- can't believe that it is that >long ago -- I threw in a footnote in which, without evidence of any sort, >I raised expressed doubt whether one should include Omotic within >Afroasiatic.
		At the time, I had been working on comparative Afroasiatic >and was struck by the fact that with languages from any of the other >branches, the genetic connection was obvious once one just scratched the >surface, whereas the Omotic languages that I had look at didn't fit into >the same mold.
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1999/v1999.n148 (2003 words)

	Ethnologue report for Ethiopia
		Lexical similarity 14% with Omotic languages, 6% with Mao.
		The Language Academy said it should be considered a separate speech variety.
		Dialects: The former language was possibly Eastern Sudanic or an Awngi variety (Bender 1983), or Cushitic (Bender, Bowen, Cooper, and Ferguson 1976:14).
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Ethiopia (2599 words)

	HEC refs
		The influence of Sidamo on the Ethiopic languages of Gurage.
		A note on the relative chronology of the Cushitic verb and genetic classification of the Cushitic languages.
		The Morphology of Nominal Plural in the Cushitic Languages (Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 28).
	www.msu.edu /~hudson/HECrefs.htm (2039 words)

	Omotic languages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Omotic and Cushitic are types of Afro-Asiatic languages spoken in northeast Africa.
		Whether the old Cushitic language family should be split in two is still controversial.
		Here the Japanese potency of something half concealed to stimulate the imagination, but it favorite war hero and then to bury it.
	www.city-search.org /om/omotic-languages.html (162 words)

	FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Rabin maintained, the Semitic "family" consisted of a group of originally unrelated languages that came to resemble each other because their speakers lived in close proximity for thousands of years.
		These languages include the various dialects of Berber; Chadic languages such as Hausa, Logone, Musgu, Bade and Margi; Cushitic languages such as Beja, Awngi, Burji, Afar and Somali; and Omotic languages such as Hamar, Kafa, Janjero and Basketo.
		As a group they dominate much of the northern third of the African continent, stretching from Senegal on the Atlantic to Eritrea on the Red Sea and from the Sahara to the Mediterranean, and together with Semitic they are commonly grouped today in one super-family known formerly as Hamito-Semitic and today as Afro-Asiatic.
	www.forward.com /issues/2001/01.03.23/arts5.html (562 words)

	SILESR Country Index
		A Rapid Appraisal Language Survey of Sharwa, a Language of Cameroon (Mayo-Tsanaga Division, Far North Province)
		Language Survey Report on the White Yi of Stone Forest County
		Language Use in the Epena District of Northern Congo
	www.sil.org /silesr/indexes/countries.asp (1512 words)

	Rishon Rishon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I think that language is a tool, which we use to communicate thoughts (and sometimes, but not necessarily, to think).
		It would be fascinating to study the language of expats from a large variety of linguistic backgrounds, immersed in a wide variety of foreign languages, and make a of table of features "unnaturally" borrowed into their native languages, and the features that are replaced.
		The result, I think, would be an entropy graph of linguistic features: each time a native feature is replaced by a foreign feature we could say that the native feature is at a higher energy level than the foreign feature that replaced it.
	www.rishon-rishon.com (8561 words)

	Ethiopic Ordered List
		No one language uses every element in Unicode, each languages uses some subset of what is in Unicode.
		The sequence was periodically promoted for use in other languages (Amharic and Tigrigna) evidence of its use in collation or in ordered list would be hard to come by were it ever employed outside of Ge'ez.
		This seems unlikely for an Omotic language and may represent an error in the document or different symbology choices for the same phonemes.
	www.geez.org /Collation/OrderedLists.html (2355 words)

	FREELANG - Classification of the main languages of the world by families
		Please note that the number of speakers is for information only, as it is very hard to know the exact number of speakers of a language.
		For a comprehensive classification of all existing languages, we recommend the website of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Texas.
		It is the biggest database available on the web concerning languages and their classification.
	www.freelang.net /families (571 words)

	1993-94 INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP ANNUAL REPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gene Gragg presented a paper, "Phonology, Comparative Method, and Etymological Databases," at the Third International Symposium on Cushitic and Omotic Languages held in Berlin March 17-19.
		Individuals from a number of institutions in the United States and Europe have expressed interest in using the system both as a reference tool and in the context of on-going linguistic fieldwork (specifically the southern-most extension of Cushitic in Tanzania).
		A project of similar nature in Berkeley and Lyons, covering the hundreds of Bantu languages in Africa, had independently set similar goals (updatable multi-user, multi-platform electronic etymological database) and means (commercially available micro-computer-accessible database managing system), and are investigating how much of the architecture and programs of CUSHLEX can be adapted to their situation.
	www-oi.uchicago.edu /OI/AR/93-94/93-94_Ind_Gragg.html (203 words)

	SILESR 2002 Contents
		A paper copy may be made from the PDF file using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
		Language: Barclayville Grebo, Central Grebo, Gboloo Grebo, Northern Grebo, Southern Grebo
		Title: Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha Areas with Excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) Part II
	www.sil.org /silesr/yearindex.asp?year=2002 (3061 words)

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