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Omotic languages
There are up to 30 Omotic languages, all of which are spoken in southern and south-western Ethiopia. For present purposes, they can be subgrouped as follows (cfr Bender 2000, Hayward 2000):
- North Omotic -- some 20 languages, maybe less
- South Omotic (Aroid) -- 3-5 languages
- Mao Omotic -- four languages
A SELECTION OF PRINTED SOURCES
Bender, Marvin Lionel. 1975. Omotic: a new Afroasiatic language family. Southern Illinois University Museum series, n. 3.
Bender, Marvin Lionel. 2000. Comparative morphology of the Omotic languages. Lincom studies in African linguistics, n. 19. Lincom Europa.
Cohen, David. 1988. Couchitique - Omotique. In: Les langues dans le monde ancien et moderne (ed. by Jean Perrot & Daniel Cohen), v. 3, p. 243-269. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
Fleming, Harold C. 1974. Omotic as an Afroasiatic family. In: Proceedings of the 5th annual conference on African linguistics (ed. by William Ronald Leben), p. 81-94. African Studies Center & Department of Linguistics, University of California (UCLA).
Fleming, Harold C. 1976. Omotic overview. In: The non-Semitic languages of Ethiopia (ed. by Marvin Lionel Bender), p. 299-323. African Studies Center, Michigan State University.
Hayward, Richard J. (Ed.) 1990. Omotic language studies. School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Hayward, Richard J. 2000. Afroasiatic. In: African languages: an introduction (ed. by Bernd Heine & Derek Nurse), p. 74-98. Cambridge University Press.
Hayward, Richard J. 2003. Omotic: the 'empty quarter' of Afroasiatic linguistics. In: Research in Afroasiatic grammar II: selected papers from the fifth conference on Afroasiatic languages (ed. by Jacqueline Lecarme), p. 241-261. John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Tosco, Mauro. 2003. Cushitic and Omotic overview. In: Selected comparative-historical Afrasian linguistic studies, in memory of Igor M. Diakonoff (ed. by Marvin Lionel Bender, Gabor Takacs & David L. Appleyard), p. 87-92. Lincom Europa.
South Omo Research Center, a forum for scientific debate and transcultural understanding in southern Ethiopia.
www.uni-mainz.de/Organisationen/SORC
Alexander Militarev
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Alemayehu Abebe, 2002
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Julia Schütz, 2006
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Yilma Aklilu, 2002
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Yilma Aklilu, Ralph Siebert, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-029.
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Yilma Aklilu, Ralph Siebert, 2002
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Mulugeta Seyoum, 2008
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Marvin Dean Beachy, 2005
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Jean Lydall, 1999
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Jean Lydall, 2002
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Jean Lydall, 2003
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Jean Lydall, Ivo Strecker, 1979
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Jean Lydall, Ivo Strecker, 1979
The Hamar of southern Ethiopia, 2: Baldambe explains (PDF). Arbeiten aus dem Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität zu Göttingen, Nr 13.
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Ivo Strecker, 1976
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Ivo Strecker, 1988
Some notes on the use of 'Barjo' in Hamar (PDF). From: Cushitic Omotic. Edited by Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst & Fritz Serzisko. Helmut Buske Verlag.
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Matthias Brenzinger
The "islanders" of Lake Abbaya and Lake Ch'amo: Harro Ganjule, Gats'ame, and Bayso (PDF). SIL electronic survey report 1999-003.
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Yilma Aklilu, Ralph Siebert, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-029.
www.sil.org/silesr/2002/029
Ralph Siebert, Simon Caudwell, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Melo (Malo) and Mursi languages of Ethiopia (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-046.
www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-046
Yilma Aklilu, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Nayi language of Ethiopia (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-010.
www.sil.org/silesr/2002/010
Yilma Aklilu, Ralph Siebert, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-029.
www.sil.org/silesr/2002/029
Alemayehu Abebe, 2002
Ometo dialect pilot survey report (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-068.
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Alemayehu Abebe, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Ometo dialect of Ethiopia (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-012.
www.sil.org/silesr/2002/012
Yilma Aklilu, Ralph Siebert, Kati Siebert, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Omotic languages Sheko and Yem (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-053.
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Tsega Endalew, 2005
Christian influences on Shinasha oral traditions (PDF). Hamburger afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere, n. 3, p. 1-12.
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Zelealem Leyew, 2002
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Micha Wedekind, Lemma Alga, 2002
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Jacques Bureau, 1978
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Yilma Aklilu, 2002
Pilot survey of bilingualism in Yem (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-052.
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Yilma Aklilu, Ralph Siebert, Kati Siebert, 2002
Sociolinguistic survey report of the Omotic languages Sheko and Yem (PDF). SIL electronic survey report SILESR 2002-053.
www.sil.org/silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2002-053
