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The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea: Short Grammar and Texts

By David Elias

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004271198, 9789004271197
ISSN
0081-8461
Google Books ID
JWa7AwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3418015 bytes)
Series
Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics 75
Pages
x+292\304
Topic
Linguistics Foreign
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-02-28 20:40:23
Языки и языкознание;Африканские языки;Языки Эритре

Description

In The Tigre Language of Gindaˁ, Eritrea, David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of Gindaˁ in eastern Eritrea. While the language of Tigre is spoken by perhaps one million people in Eritrea and Sudan, the population of Gindaˁ is fewer than 50,000 people. Elias describes basic aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicography. In contrast to other dialects of Tigre, of which approximately a dozen have been identified, Tigre of Gindaˁ exhibits the only recorded examples in Tigre of gender-specific first person possessives, e.g. ʕənye ‘my eye’ (masc) vs. ʕənče ‘my eye’ (masc/fem), and a new form of the negative of the verb of existence, yahallanni ‘there is not’. Contact with Arabic and Tigrinya has resulted in numerous loanwords and a few biforms in Tigre of Gindaˁ.

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