This handbook provides a comprehensive account of the languages spoken in Ethiopia, exploring their structures and their function and use in society. It offers overviews of individual languages, many of them less documented, as well as detailed studies of specific aspects of language use in Ethiopia.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Detailed contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of maps, figures, and tables
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- The contributors
- Ethiopia-specific issues
- Preface
- Part I: Background and general issues
- 1: Ronny Meyer and Moges Yigezu: Ethiopian languages and their demographic distribution
- 2: Grover Hudson: Classification of Ethiopian languages
- 3: Ronny Meyer and Moges Yigezu: Linguistic diversity in Ethiopian languages
- 4: Azeb Amha and Zelealem Leyew: Language endangerment in Ethiopia
- 5: Derib Ado: Language policy and planning in Ethiopia
- 6: Bedilu Wakjira and Teshager Shiferaw: Language in the media
- 7: Ronny Meyer and Bedilu Wakjira: Scripts and writing in Ethiopia
- 8: Anbessa Teferra: Linguistic avoidance and taboo in Ethiopian languages
- 9: Katell Morand: Language and music
- Part II: Cushitic languages
- 10: Mauro Tosco: General overview of Cushitic
- 11: Zelealem Leyew and Yaregal Allene: Awngi
- 12: Mauro Tosco: Gawwada
- 13: Yvonne Treis: Kambaata
- 14: Ongaye Oda Orkaydo and Maarten Mous: Konso
- 15: Giorgio Banti and Shimelis Mazengia: Oromo
- 16: Giorgio Banti and Moreno Vergari: Saaho
- 17: Kazuhiro Kawachi: Sidaama
- 18: Morgan Nilsson: Somali
- 19: Chloé Darmon: Xamtanga
- Part III: Ethiosemitic languages
- 20: Olga Kapeliuk: General overview of Ethiosemitic
- 21: Mengistu Amberber: Amharic
- 22: Andreas Wetter: Argobba
- 23: Fekede Menuta and Sascha Völlmin: Chaha group
- 24: Amsalu Tefera and Maria Bulakh: Old Ethiopic (Geez)
- 25: Berhanu Chamora, Jean-François Prunet, and Sharon Rose: Inor group
- 26: Bedilu Wakjira: Kistane
- 27: Ousman Shafi and Ronny Meyer: Mesqan
- 28: Maria Bulakh: Tigrinya
- 29: Ronny Meyer: Zay
- Part IV: Nilo-Saharan languages
- 30: Gerrit J. Dimmendaal: General overview of Nilo-Saharan
- 31: Torben Andersen: Berta
- 32: Colleen Ahland: Northern Gumuz
- 33: Osamu Hieda: Koegu (Muguji)
- 34: Andreas Joswig: Majang
- 35: Bettina Mütze and Colleen Ahland: Mursi
- 36: Noam Faust and Eitan Grossman: Nuer
- 37: Michael Bryant: Suri (Tirmaga-Chai)
- 38: Don Killian: Uduk
- Part V: Omotic languages
- 39: Rolf Theil: General overview of Omotic
- 40: Sara Petrollino: Hamar
- 41: Rolf Theil: Kafa
- 42: Michael Ahland: Northern Mao (Mawes Aats'è)
- 43: Girma Mengistu Desta: Sezo
- 44: Anne-Christie Hellenthal: Sheko
- 45: Motomichi Wakasa: Wolyatta
- 46: Silvia Zaugg-Coretti: Yemsa
- Part VI: Other Ethiopian languages
- 47: Eyasu Hailu and Pawlos Kassu: Ethiopian Sign Language
- 48: Orin Gensler: Ethiopian English
- 49: Endris Mohammed and Andreas Wetter: Arabic in Ethiopia
- References
- Indexes