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| amharic language in washington dc: The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages Ronny Meyer, Bedilu Wakjira, Zelealem Leyew, 2023-05-04 This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring both their structures and features and their function and use in society. The first part of the volume provides background and general information relating to Ethiopian languages, including their demographic distribution and classification, language policy, scripts and writing, and language endangerment. Subsequent parts are dedicated to the four major language families in Ethiopia - Cushitic, Ethiosemitic, Nilo-Saharan, and Omotic - and contain studies of individual languages, with an initial introductory overview chapter in each part. Both major and less-documented languages are included, ranging from Amharic and Oromo to Zay, Gawwada, and Yemsa. The final part explores languages that are outside of those four families, namely Ethiopian Sign Language, Ethiopian English, and Arabic. With its international team of senior researchers and junior scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Ethiopian Languages will appeal to anyone interested in the languages of the region and in African linguistics more broadly. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics Hadumod Bussmann, 2006-02-20 The Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics is a unique reference work for students and teachers of linguistics. The highly regarded second edition of the Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft by Hadumod Bussmann has been specifically adapted by a team of over thirty specialist linguists to form the most comprehensive and up-to-date work of its kind in the English language. In over 2,500 entries, the Dictionary provides an exhaustive survey of the key terminology and languages of more than 30 subdisciplines of linguistics. With its term-based approach and emphasis on clear analysis, it complements perfectly Routledge's established range of reference material in the field of linguistics. |
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| amharic language in washington dc: Compendium of the World's Languages George L. Campbell, Gareth King, 2020-07-01 This third edition of Compendium of the World’s Languages has been thoroughly revised to provide up-to-date and accurate descriptions of a wide selection of natural language systems. All cultural and historical notes as well as statistical data have been checked, updated and in many cases expanded. Presenting an even broader range of languages and language families, including new coverage of Australian aboriginal languages and expanded treatment of North American and African languages, this new edition offers a total of 342 entries over nearly 2000 pages. Key features include: Complete rewriting, systematization and regularisation of the phonology sections Provision of IPA symbol grids arranged by articulatory feature and by alphabetic resemblance to facilitate use of the new phonology sections Expansion of morphology descriptions for most major languages Provision of new illustrative text samples Addition of a glossary of technical terms and an expanded bibliography Comparative tables of the numerals 1-10 in a representative range of languages, and also grouped by family Drawing upon a wealth of recent developments and research in language typology and broadened availability of descriptive data, this new incarnation of George Campbell’s astounding Compendium brings a much-loved survey emphatically into the twenty-first century for a new generation of readers. Scholarly, comprehensive and highly accessible, Compendium of the World’s Languages remains the ideal reference for all interested linguists and professionals alike. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Ethiopian Americans W. Gabriel Selassie I, 2025-01-09 Explore the history, culture, and lived experiences of Ethiopian Americans in the USA. Ethiopia, in East Africa, is the second most populated country in Africa, home to over 125 million inhabitants. For centuries, many Ethiopians had little exposure to the outside world, and even less to Americans. However, that started to change in the 1970s. In 1974, a military-backed government deposed Emperor Haile Selassie I, and many Ethiopians emigrated to the West. Today, large populations of Ethiopian Americans live in cities such as Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. This book offers an accessible and detailed glimpse into their everyday lives. It includes an overview of Ethiopian art, media, and cuisine, biographies of accomplished Ethiopian Americans, and a revealing look into the ongoing struggle for equality and representation that many Ethiopian Americans experience. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Research in Education , 1972 |
| amharic language in washington dc: The Media of Conflict Tim Allen, Jean Seaton, 1999-03 This book demonstrates how international media coverage of contemporary wars often encourages serious misunderstandings of complex situations. The shortage of information and the reporting only of those events easily understood by western audiences compounds misconceptions. The contributors are concerned with getting behind ethnic categorizations and examining how they have been constructed from the perspective that ethnicity is essentially a negotiated and relational phenomenon, not something static, primordial or 'natural.' |
| amharic language in washington dc: Foreign Language, Area, and Other International Studies John P. Brosseau, 1980 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Ethiopia Paulos Milkias, 2011-05-18 This book is the most complete, accessible, and up-to-date resource for Ethiopian geography, history, politics, economics, society, culture, and education, with coverage from ancient times to the present. Ethiopia is a comprehensive treatment of this ancient country's history coupled with an exploration of the nation today. Arranged by broad topics, the book provides an overview of Ethiopia's physical and human geography, its history, its system of government, and the present economic situation. But the book also presents a picture of contemporary society and culture and of the Ethiopian people. It also discusses art, music, and cinema; class; gender; ethnicity; and education, as well as the language, food, and etiquette of the country. Readers will learn such fascinating details as the fact that coffee was first domesticated in Ethiopia more than 10,000 years ago and that modern Ethiopia comprises 77 different ethnic groups with their own distinct languages. |
| amharic language in washington dc: From Spanish to Portuguse United States. Department of State, 1971 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Spanish; Programmatic Course Foreign Service Institute (U.S.), 1967 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Lao Basic Course Warren Grice Yates, Souksomboun Sayasithsena, 1970 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Lao Basic Course: [by] Warren G. Yates, Souksomboun Sayasithsena, and Malichanh Svengsouk Warren Grice Yates, Souksomboun Sayasithsena, 1970 |
| amharic language in washington dc: German, a Programmed Introduction William Riley Van Buskirk, 1971 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Area Handbook for Ethiopia American University (Washington, D.C.). Foreign Areas Studies Division, George Arthur Lipsky, 1964 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Ethiopia and the United States Getachew Metaferia, 2009 For over a century Ethiopia and the United States have been engaged in meandering diplomatic relations influenced by major official actors, domestic politics, and world conditions. Based on archival and declassified government documents, interviews, and translations of works in Amharic, Professor Getachew Metaferia has provided a balanced, detailed analysis of the diplomatic history of Ethiopia, Africa's longest-enduring independent nation, and its frequent benefactor from the New World. |
| amharic language in washington dc: From Eastern to Western Arabic Margaret Kleffner Nydell, 1974 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Sinhala Bonnie G. MacDougall, Kamini De Abrew, Foreign Service Institute (U.S.), 1979 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Portugese; Programmatic Course United States Department of State, 1974 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Portuguese Programmatic Course Foreign Service Institute (U.S.), 1974 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Portuguese Jack Lee Ulsh, 1974 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Library of Congress Catalog Library of Congress, 1963 A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards. |
| amharic language in washington dc: List No. 7: Foreign Language Area Studies and Other Aspects of Internatinal Education United States. Office of Education, 1973 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Natural Language Processing of Semitic Languages Imed Zitouni, 2014-04-22 Research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has rapidly advanced in recent years, resulting in exciting algorithms for sophisticated processing of text and speech in various languages. Much of this work focuses on English; in this book we address another group of interesting and challenging languages for NLP research: the Semitic languages. The Semitic group of languages includes Arabic (206 million native speakers), Amharic (27 million), Hebrew (7 million), Tigrinya (6.7 million), Syriac (1 million) and Maltese (419 thousand). Semitic languages exhibit unique morphological processes, challenging syntactic constructions and various other phenomena that are less prevalent in other natural languages. These challenges call for unique solutions, many of which are described in this book. The 13 chapters presented in this book bring together leading scientists from several universities and research institutes worldwide. While this book devotes some attention to cutting-edge algorithms and techniques, its primary purpose is a thorough explication of best practices in the field. Furthermore, every chapter describes how the techniques discussed apply to Semitic languages. The book covers both statistical approaches to NLP, which are dominant across various applications nowadays and the more traditional, rule-based approaches, that were proven useful for several other application domains. We hope that this book will provide a one-stop-shop'' for all the requisite background and practical advice when building NLP applications for Semitic languages. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Resources in Education , 1986-03 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Foreign Language, Area, and Other International Studies Julia A. Petrov, 1976 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Experimental IR Meets Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Interaction Avi Arampatzis, Evangelos Kanoulas, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Hideo Joho, Christina Lioma, Carsten Eickhoff, Aurélie Névéol, Linda Cappellato, Nicola Ferro, 2020-09-15 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference of the CLEF Association, CLEF 2020, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in September 2020.* The conference has a clear focus on experimental information retrieval with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search ranging from unstructured to semi structures and structured data. The 5 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. This year, the contributions addressed the following challenges: a large-scale evaluation of translation effects in academic search, advancement of assessor-driven aggregation methods for efficient relevance assessments, and development of a new test dataset. In addition to this, the volume presents 7 “best of the labs” papers which were reviewed as full paper submissions with the same review criteria. The 12 lab overview papers were accepted out of 15 submissions and represent scientific challenges based on new data sets and real world problems in multimodal and multilingual information access. * The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Encyclopedia of African American Artists dele jegede, 2009-03-20 African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of media by artists intimately familiar with them. From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to photography of Gordon Parks, and new media of Sam Gilliam and Martin Puryear (installation art), the African American experience is reflected across generations and works. Eight pages of color plates and black and white images throughout the book introduce both favorite and new artists to students and adult readers alike. African American heritage is rich with stories of family, community, faith, love, adaptation and adjustment, grief, and suffering, all captured in a variety of media by artists intimately familiar with them. From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to photography of Gordon Parks, and new media of Sam Gilliam and Martin Puryear (installation art), the African American experience is reflected across generations and works. Eight pages of color plates and black and white images throughout the book introduce both favorite and new artists to students and adult readers alike. A sampling of the artists included: Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Achamyele Debela, and Melvin Edwards. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Compendium of the World's Languages: Ladakhi to Zuni George L. Campbell, 2000 Many languages, particularly those which have achieved literary status, have been studied in great detail, and specialized descriptions of these are plentiful. What has not been so readily available, however, is a general survey covering a wide spectrum of the world's languages on a comparative basis. It is this kind of comparative cross-section of languages, ranging from the familiar and well-documented to the relatively obscure, that the Compendium of the World's Languages presents. |
| amharic language in washington dc: DHEW Publication No. (OE). , 1972 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Concise Compendium of the World's Languages George L. Campbell, 2003-09-02 From Afrikaans to Zulu, almost 100 languages from the comprehensive Compendium of the World's Languages are featured in this new concise version. Many articles have been revised. The Concise Compendium presents a detailed comparative study of the major and many of the lesser known languages of the world. Included are representatives of all language families, with samples of Amerindian, such as Navajo and of African languages, such as Fulani and Nama; languages of politically independent groups in the former USSR, like Uzbek and Belorussian; those of political pressure groups, such as Breton and Catalan and significant community/ethnic languages, including Amharic and Vietnamese. Throughout, the treatment is factual and jargon-free. Articles are ordered alphabetically and each has a standard structure for ease of reference: * general historical and sociolinguistic introduction * writing system * sound system * grammatical system A passage from the Gospel of St. John illustrates each language with a written tradition. These scripts are explained in an appendix at the end of the book. Presents 100 of the world's major languages and representatives of different language groups, politically significant languages and particularly interesting ones. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Sing and Sing On Kay Kaufman Shelemay, 2022-01-11 A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution. Sing and Sing On is the first study of the forced migration of musicians out of the Horn of Africa dating from the 1974 Ethiopian revolution, a political event that overthrew one of the world’s oldest monarchies and installed a brutal military regime. Musicians were among the first to depart the region, their lives shattered by revolutionary violence, curfews, and civil war. Reconstructing the memories of forced migration, Sing and Sing On traces the challenges musicians faced amidst revolutionary violence and the critical role they played in building communities abroad. Drawing on the recollections of dozens of musicians, Sing and Sing On details personal, cultural, and economic hardships experienced by musicians who have resettled in new locales abroad. Kay Kaufman Shelemay highlights their many artistic and social initiatives and the ways they have offered inspiration and leadership within and beyond a rapidly growing Ethiopian American diaspora. While musicians held this role as sentinels in Ethiopian culture long before the revolution began, it has taken on new meanings and contours in the Ethiopian diaspora. The book details the ongoing creativity of these musicians while exploring the attraction of return to their Ethiopian homeland over the course of decades abroad. Ultimately, Shelemay shows that musicians are uniquely positioned to serve this sentinel role as both guardians and challengers of cultural heritage. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Performance Research 9:4 Dec 2 Various Authors, 2023-05-31 First published in 2004. Civility might appear the last and least likely term to mobilise attention in the non- adjacent fields to performance. This issue recognises an expanded political vocabulary in concept of ‘sly civility’ located at the heart of the recent work drawing on a set of previously dis-colonising imagination. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Cambodian English English-Cambodian Glossary Kem Sos, 1976 |
| amharic language in washington dc: Language Use and Social Change Wilfred Whiteley, 2017-09-18 The social implications of multilingualism is a field of study on whcih systematic research began only in the second half of the 20th century in Africa. This book, originally published in 1971, contains papers which concentrate on East Africa but it also discusses theoretical problems and methods arising from socio-linguistic studies outside the African field. These include studies on national languages and languages of wider communication in developing nations; the communication role of languages in multilingual societies; and social and cognitive aspects of bilingualism. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Bibliographia Aethiopica II Hans Wilhelm Lockot, 1998 Erstmals wird hier die Fulle der englischsprachigen Athiopienliteratur geordnet dargeboten. In 100 Sections fuhrt der Autor alle fur die wissenschaftliche Beschaftigung mit Athiopien wichtigen Buch- und Zeitschriftenbeitrage zum Beispiel zur Historyof Research, Archaeology, Religion, aber auch Fragen der Sociology, Agriculture, Zoology und Medical Sciences auf. Wie im Falle der deutschsprachigen Literatur (Bibliographia Aethiopica: Die athiopienkundliche Literatur des deutschsprachigenRaumes = Aethiopistische Forschungen 9 [1982]) berucksichtigt der Autor auch alle ihm zuganglichen Besprechungen, womit bei einer Aufnahme von mehr als 24.000 Titeln eine Art Bibliographic Enzyclopedia entstanden ist. |
| amharic language in washington dc: The Linguistic Reporter , 1963 |
| amharic language in washington dc: The Semitic Languages John Huehnergard, Na’ama Pat-El, 2019-02-18 The Semitic Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family, from their origins in antiquity to their present-day forms. This second edition has been fully revised, with new chapters and a wealth of additional material. New features include the following: • new introductory chapters on Proto-Semitic grammar and Semitic linguistic typology • an additional chapter on the place of Semitic as a subgroup of Afro-Asiatic, and several chapters on modern forms of Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian Semitic • text samples of each individual language, transcribed into the International Phonetic Alphabet, with standard linguistic word-by-word glossing as well as translation • new maps and tables present information visually for easy reference. This unique resource is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of linguistics and language. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, linguistic anthropology and language development. |
| amharic language in washington dc: The Eritrean Struggle for Independence Ruth Iyob, 1995 This book is a comprehensive analysis of the country's political history over the past three decades. |
| amharic language in washington dc: Changing Valency Robert M. W. Dixon, Aleksandra I︠U︡rʹevna Aĭkhenvalʹd, 2000-02-10 Distinguished scholars examine the phenomena of passives and causatives in languages from around the world. |
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Amharic (አማርኛ āmariññā) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. It is the second most spoken Semitic language after Arabic, and the official language of Ethiopia.
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The Amharic language, also known as Amarinya or Kuchumba, is the second most popular Semitic language after Arabic and is considered to be the most widely spoken language in the …
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Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geʽez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; Amharic is …
Amharic alphabet, pronunciation and language - Omniglot
Amharic is a Semitic language and the national language of Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ). The majority of the 25 million or so speakers of Amharic can be found in Ethiopia, but …
Amharic language | Ethiopia, Semitic, Alphabets | Britannica
Apr 18, 2025 · Amharic is an Afro-Asiatic language of the Southwest Semitic group and is related to Geʿez, or Ethiopic, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox …
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Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia, an East African country located in the Horn of Africa – an area of the continent that juts out into the Arabian Sea. It is also the second …
Amharic language - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amharic (አማርኛ āmariññā) is a Semitic language spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara. It is the second most spoken Semitic language after Arabic, and the …
