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The origin of Amharic / Girma A. Demeke.

Title
The origin of Amharic / Girma A. Demeke.
Author
Demeke, Girma A.
Publication
Trenton, N.J. : Red Sea Press, 2014.

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Description
xix, 310 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm
Subject
  • Amharic language > History
  • Language and languages > Origin
  • Language and culture
Note
  • "The first edition of this book was published first in 2009 in Addis Ababa by the French Center for Ethiopian Studies and later in the same year (with minor editing) in Germany by LINCOM Europa Academic publishers."--Preface.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- An overview of the pidgin origin hypothesis -- The place of Amharic in genetic classification -- An examination of the pidgin origin hypothesis -- The origin of Ethio-Semitic -- An outline of the origin of Amharic -- The development of Amharic as a written language -- A grammatical sketch of old Amharic -- Concluding remarks.
ISBN
  • 9781569023785 (hard cover)
  • 1569023786 (hard cover)
  • 9781569023792 (pbk.)
  • 1569023794 (pbk.)
LCCN
  • ^^2013001620
  • 40022702573
OCLC
824502290
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library