Full Description
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.
Contents
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
