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• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003.
• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005.
• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: Ha-?. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. (in prod.)
• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: ?-Z. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. (in prod.)

(none of the encyclopedias includes information on topics after 1974)

[edit] Particularly good sources:

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to The End of the 18th Century Asmara: Red Sea Press, Inc., 1997.
• Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967.
• Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
• Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
• Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982.
• Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991. ' (one small chapter, but substantial for this subject) Online with page numbers for easy citing

General:

• Paul B. Henze, Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia.New York: Palgrave, 2000.
• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Procedings of the Third International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellasie I University, June 1969. (conference in 1966)
  • See also procedings of other conferences.

[edit] Hominids

• Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.

[edit] Archaeological

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Annales d'Éthiopie: Tome Septième et Tome Huitième. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Institute of Archeology, 1967 and 1970. (in French - primarily deals with Archaeology)

[edit] Pre-Aksumite

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09. (see D`mt, Ag`azi, Habašat, among others)
• Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991. ' (one small chapter, but substantial for this subject) Online with page numbers for easy citing'
• Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. (very little, but useful: see "Introduction")
• Annales d'Éthiopie: Tome Septième et Tome Huitième. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Institute of Archeology, 1967 and 1970. (in French - mainly archaeological, but has relevant information)
  • See also other volumes (e.g. 1-6).

[edit] Aksumite

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09. (esp. very long article on Aksum [good generalizations])
• Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991. '(foremost [arguable] work on subject) Online with page numbers for easy citing'
• Yuri M. Kobishchanov, Axum. Joseph W. Michels, editor; Lorraine T. Kapitanoff, translator. University Park, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 1979.
• Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (one full chronicle of Ezana)
• Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. (mainly very late Aksumite period [i.e. its decline] & early Zagwe)
• Annales d'Éthiopie: Tome Septième et Tome Huitième. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Institute of Archeology, 1967 and 1970. (in French - more focused on pre-Aksumite era)

[edit] Zagwe

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. (some substantial info on Zagwe. See "The Legacy of Aksum and Adäfa," esp. 53-68. also see 38-53)
• Tekeste Negash. The Zagwe period re-interpreted: post-Aksumite Ethiopian urban culture. PDF

[edit] Solomonic (1270-1527)

• Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. (foremost work on time period)
• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Amde Seyon, Zara Ya'qob, Be'ida Maryam, and Lebna Dengel)
• Girma Beshah and Merid Wolde Aregay, The Question of the Union of the Churches in Luso-Ethiopian Relations (1500-1632). Lisbon: Junta de Investigaçǒes do Ultramar and Centro de Estudes Históricos Ultramarinos, 1964. (focuses on the Church, as the title implies)
• Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
• Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (detailed for specific towns as title implies)

[edit] Ahmed Gragn

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Lebna Dengel & Galawdewos)
• Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst. Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003. (First complete English translation of this primary source on Ahmad's Gragn invasion of Ethiopia)
• Girma Beshah and Merid Wolde Aregay, The Question of the Union of the Churches in Luso-Ethiopian Relations (1500-1632). Lisbon: Junta de Investigaçǒes do Ultramar and Centro de Estudes Históricos Ultramarinos, 1964.
• Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
• Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (discusses Harrar & effects of invasion on towns)

[edit] Gonderine Era

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Susenyos, Yohannes I, Iyasu I, Bakaffa, and Iyasu II)'
• Girma Beshah and Merid Wolde Aregay, The Question of the Union of the Churches in Luso-Ethiopian Relations (1500-1632). Lisbon: Junta de Investigaçǒes do Ultramar and Centro de Estudes Históricos Ultramarinos, 1964.
• Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
• Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (esp. Gonder city, and various other towns)

[edit] Zemene Mesafint

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Iyoas I, and "The Era of the Masafint or Princes (1750? - 1855)
• Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia: the era of the princes: The challenge of Islam and the re-unification of the Christian empire, 1769-1855. Place needed: Longmans, 1968.
• Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (early 19th c. history of towns - Gonder, Aksum, Adwa, etc.)

[edit] Early Modern Era (to 1974)

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09. (Basically only up to 1974)
• Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Tewodros II, Yohannes IV, and Menelik II [for Shewa & Emperor-ship])

[edit] Current Issues

• Marcus, Harold G. Editor. Hudson, Grover. Associate Editor. New Trends in Ethiopian Studies:Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Michigan State University 5-10 September 1994: Volume II: Social Sciences. NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 1994.

[edit] Afar language

• Bliese, Loren F. (1976) 'Afar', in Bender, Lionel M. (ed.) The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 133–164.
• Bliese, Loren F. (1981) A generative grammar of Afar (Summer Institute of Linguistics publications in linguistics vol. 65). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics / Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.
• Colby, J.G. (1970) 'Notes on the northern dialect of the 'Afar language', Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 8, 1, 1–8.
• Morin, Didier (1997) Poésie traditionnelle des Afars (Langues et cultures africaines, 21 / SELAF vol. 363). Paris/Louvain: Peeters.
• Voigt, Rainer M. (1975) 'Bibliographie des Saho-Afar', Africana Marburgensia, vol. 8, 53–63.

[edit] Amharic

• Abraham, Roy Clive (1968). The Principles of Amharic. Occasional Publication / Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. [rewritten version of 'A modern grammar of spoken Amharic', 1941]
• Amsalu Aklilu (1973) English-Amharic dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-72264-7
• Amsalu Aklilu & Demissie Manahlot (1990) T'iru ye'Amarinnya Dirset 'Indet Yale New! (An Amharic grammar, in Amharic)
• Bennet, M.E. (1978) Stratificational Approaches to Amharic Phonology. PhD thesis, Ann Arbor: Michigan State University.
• Cohen, Marcel (1936) Traité de langue amharique. Paris. Characteristics of Amharic
• Dawkins, C. H. (¹1960, ²1969) The Fundamentals of Amharic. Addis Ababa.
• Kane, Thomas L. (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary. (2 vols.) Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02871-8
• Kapeliuk, Olga (1988) Nominalization in Amharic. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden. ISBN 3515045120
• Kapeliuk, Olga (1994) Syntax of the noun in Amharic. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447034068.
• Leslau, Wolf (1976) Concise Amharic Dictionary. (Reissue edition: 1996) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20501-4
• Leslau, Wolf (1995) Reference Grammar of Amharic. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. ISBN 3-447-03372-X
• Ludolf, Hiob (1698) Grammatica Linguæ Amharicæ. Frankfort.
• Praetorius, Franz (1879) Die amharische Sprache. Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.

[edit] Argobba

• Leslau, Wolf (1997) Ethiopic Documents: Argobba. Grammar and dictionary Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447039558.
• Zelealem Leyew and Ralph Siebert (1994) Survey on Least Known Languages of Ethiopia - Argobba. S.L.L.E. Linguistic Reports Addis Ababa: S.I.L./Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.

Link to SIL: http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/026/

[edit] Beja language

(some speakers in Ethiopia - esp. around Humera area)

• A Beja grammar (in Arabic)

[edit] Bussa language

• Gurmu, Alemayehu [2005] 'Some Notes on Sociolinguistic Aspects of Bussa' (unpublished paper presented at International Conference on Endangered Ethiopian Languages, Addis Ababa 27-30 April 2005)
• Wedekind, Klaus (ed.) (2002) 'Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada (Dullay), Diraasha (Gidole), Muusiye (Bussa) areas.' SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-065.

[edit] Cushitic languages

[edit] Ethio-Semitic languages

[edit] Gafat language

• Johann Christoph Adelung (1812), Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachkunde. Berlin. [vol. 3, p. 124-125: the same page from the Gafat text of the Song of Songs as in Bruce 1804 below].
• Charles Tilstone Beke (1846), "On the languages and dialects of Abyssinia and the countries to the sourth", in: Proceedings of the Philological Society 2 (London), pp. 89-107.
• James Bruce (1804), Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773. 2nd ed. Edinburgh. [vol. 2, pp. 491-499: "Vocabulary of the Amharic, Falashan, Gafat, Agow and Tcheretch Agow languages"; vol. 7, plate III: a page from the Gafat text of the Song of Songs].
• Wolf Leslau (1944), "The position of Gafat in Ethiopic", in: Language 20, pp. 56-65.
• Wolf Leslau (1945), Gafat Documents: Records of a South-Ethiopic language. American Oriental series, no. 28. New Haven.
• Wolf Leslau (1956), Etudes descriptive et comparative du gafat (éthiopien méridional). Paris: C. Klincksieck.
• Hiob Ludolf, Historia Aethiopica. Francofurti ad Moenum. [there are 3 sentences in Gafat with Latin translation in chapter 10, §60].
• Franz Praetorius (1879), Die amharische Sprache. Halle. pp. 13-14.

• Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005 (See article on Gafat language and history, contains a lot of information - much more than I assumed existed).

[edit] Inor language

• Berhanu Chamora and Hetzron, R. (2000). Inor. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3895869775
• Hetzron, R. (1977). The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
• Leslau, W. (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447020415
• Leslau, W. (1983). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Part V : Chaha - Ennemor. Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 16. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3515039651

[edit] Sebat Bet Gurage

• Banksira, D. P. (2000). Sound Mutations: the Morphophonology of Chaha. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9027225648. [2]
• Cohen, Marcel (1931). Études d'éthiopien méridional. Société Asiatique, Collection d'ouvrages orientaux. Paris: Geuthner.
• Goldenberg, G. (1974). "L'étude du gouragué et la comparaison chamito-sémitique", in: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma - Problemi attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, Quaderno N. 191 II, pp. 235-249 [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics: Selected Writings by Gideon Goldenberg, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press 1998, pp. 463-477].
• Goldenberg, G. (1977). "The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia and Their Classification", in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40, pp. 461-507 [=Selected Writings, pp. 286-332].
• Goldenberg, G. (1987). "Linguistic Interest in Gurage and the Gurage Etymological Dictionary". Review article of W. Leslau, Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (see below). in: Annali, Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli 47, pp. 75-98 [=Selected Writings, pp. 439-462].
• Hetzron, Robert (1972). Ethiopian Semitic: studies in classification. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 071901123X.
• Hetzron, R. (1977). The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
• Hudson, G. (ed.) (1996). Essays on Gurage Language and Culture. Dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447038306. [3]
• Leslau, W. (1950). Ethiopic Documents: Gurage. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 14. New York: The Viking Fund.
• Leslau, W. (1965). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Leslau, W. (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447020415
• Leslau, W. (1981). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Part IV : Muher. Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 11. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3515036571.
• Leslau, W. (1983). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Part V : Chaha - Ennemor. Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 16. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3515039651
• Leslau, W. (1992). Gurage Studies: Collected Articles. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447031891. [4]
• Polotsky, H.J. (1938). "Études de grammaire gouragué", in: Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 39, pp. 137-175 [=Collected Papers by H.J. Polotsky, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press 1971, pp. 477-515].
• Polotsky, H.J. (1939). "L labialisé en gouragué mouher", in: GLECS 3, pp. 66-68 [=Collected Papers, pp. 516-518].
• Polotsky, H.J. (1951). Notes on Gurage grammar. Notes and Studies published by the Israel Oriental Society, No. 2 [=Collected Papers, pp. 519-573].
• Shack, W.A. and Habte-Mariam Marcos (1974). Gods and heroes, Oral Traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 019815142X.

[edit] Silt'e

• Cohen, Marcel (1931). Études d'éthiopien méridional. Société Asiatique, Collection d'ouvrages orientaux. Paris: Geuthner.
• Gutt, E.H.M. & Hussein Mohammed (1997). Silt'e - Amharic - English dictionary (with a concise grammar by E-A Gutt). Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press.
• Gutt, E-A. (1983). Studies in the phonology of Silti. Journal of Ethiopian Studies 16, pp. 37-73.
• Leslau, W. (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447020415

[edit] Soddo

The use of idem below is a bit confusing. Can someone clear that up?

• Gustavo Bianchi, Alla terra dei Galla. Milano ¹1884, ²1886, ³1896.
• E. Haberland, "Bemerkungen zur Kultur und Sprache der «Galila» im Wonč'i-See (Mittel-Äthiopien)", in: Rassegna di studi etiopici 16 (1960), pp. 5-22.
• Gideon Goldenberg, "Kəstanəñña: Studies in a Northern Gurage Language of Christians", in: Orientalia Suecana 17 (1968), 61-102 [=Gideon Goldenberg, Studies in Semitic Linguistics, The Magnes Press: Jerusalem 1998 ISBN 9652239925].
• idem, "L'étude du gouragué et la comparaison chamito-sémitique", in: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma - Problemi attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, Quad. N. 191 II (1974), pp. 235-249 [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics, pp. 463-477].
• idem, "The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia and Their Classification", in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40 (1977), pp. 461-507. [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics, pp. 286-332].
• idem, "Linguistic Interest in Gurage and the Gurage Etymological Dictionary" [Review article of Wolf Leslau (1979)], in: Annali, Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli 47 (1987), pp. 75-98. [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics, pp. 439-462].
• idem, "Two points of Kəstane grammar", in: Grover Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage language and culture : dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his 90th birthday, November 14th, 1996, Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 1996 (ISBN 3447038306), pp. 93-99.
• Wolf Leslau, Ethiopians speak : Studies in cultural background, III. Soddo. Near Eastern Studies, 11. Berkeley: University of California Press 1968.
• idem, Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1979. ISBN 3-447-02041-5.
• idem, Gurage Studies: Collected Articles, Otto Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden 1992. ISBN 3-447-03189-1
• Johannes Mayer, Kurze Wörtersammlung in Englisch, Deutsch, Amharisch, Gallansich, Guraguesch, herausgegeben von Dr. L. Krapf. Basel: Pilgermissions-Buchdruckerei St. Grischona 1878.
• Franz Praetorius, "Ueber den Dialekt von Gurāguē", in: Die amharische Sprache, Halle 1879, pp. 507-523 (second appendix).
• Robert Hetzron, "Main Verb-Markers in Northern Gurage", in: Africa XXXVIII (1968), pp. 156-172.
• yä-Kəstane Gurage əmmät (həzb) tarik. Addis Ababa 1986 (Ethiopian calendar).

[edit] Harari

• Abdurahman Garad and Ewald Wagner. 1998. Harari-Studien : Texte mit Übersetzung, grammatischen Skizzen und Glossar. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 344703937X. [5]
• Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Zay language area." SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 2002-024. PDF
• Cohen, Marcel. 1931. Etudes d'éthiopien méridional. Paris. pp. 243-354.
• Leslau, Wolf. 1958. The verb in Harari : (South Ethiopic). Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Leslau, Wolf. 1965. Ethiopians speak. Studies in cultural background. Part I: Harari. Near Eastern Studies, no. 7. Berkeley: University of California Press.

[edit] Kambaata

[edit] Kayla language

• "Kaïliña – a "new" Agaw dialect and its implications for Agaw dialectology". In Voice and Power. The Culture of Language in North-East Africa. Ed. by R.J. Hayward & I. Lewis. pp. 1-19. London, SOAS. 1996 (March). ISBN 0-7286-0257-1.
• David Appleyard, "Preparing a Comparative Agaw Dictionary", in ed. Griefenow-Mewis & Voigt, Cushitic & Omotic Languages: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium Berlin, Mar. 17-19, 1994, Rudiger Koppe Verlag, Koln 1996. ISBN 3-927620-28-9.

[edit] Khamtanga language

• D.L. Appleyard (1987). "A Grammatical Sketch of Khamtanga—I". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Vol. 50.

[edit] Konso language

[edit] Libido language

[edit] Berta

• Torben Andersen. "Aspects of Berta phonology". Afrika und Übersee 76: pp. 41-80.
• Torben Andersen. "Absolutive and Nominative in Berta". ed. Nicolai & Rottland, Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24-29 August 1992. Proceedings. (Nilo-Saharan 10). Koeln: Koeppe Verlag. 1995. pp.36-49.
• M. Lionel Bender. "Berta Lexicon". In Bender (ed.), Topics in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics (Nilo-Saharan 3), pp. 271-304. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag 1989.
• E. Cerulli. "Three Berta dialects in western Ethiopia", Africa, 1947.
• A. N. Tucker & M. A. Bryan. Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. London: Oxford University Press 1966.
• A. Triulzi, A. A. Dafallah, and M. L. Bender. "Berta". In Bender (ed.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. East Lansing, Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University 1976, pp. 513-532.

[edit] Me'en

[edit] Nuer

[edit] Rer Bare

• Bender, M. L. The Ethiopian Nilo-Saharans. Artistic Printers, Addis Ababa 1975.

[edit] Shabo

• Peter Unseth. 1984. Shabo (Mekeyir). A first discussion of classification and vocabulary. [Unpublished manuscript]
• Tefera Anbessa and Peter Unseth. 1989. "Toward the classification of Shabo (Mikeyir)." In M. Lionel Bender (ed.), Topics in Nilo-Saharan linguistics, 405-18. Nilo-Saharan, 3. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. ISBN 3-87118-927-8 (NISA 3). (This was the primary source for this article.)
• Tefera Anbessa. 1991. "A Sketch of Shabo Grammar". in: M. Lionel Bender (ed.), 1991, Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo Saharan Conference Bayreuth, Aug. 30.
• Fleming, Harold C. 1991. "Shabo: presentation of data and preliminary classification", in: M. Lionel Bender (ed.), 1991, Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo Saharan Conference Bayreuth, Aug. 30.
• Teferra Anbessa 1991. "A sketch of Shabo grammar", in: M. Lionel Bender (ed.), 1991, Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo Saharan Conference Bayreuth, Aug. 30.
• Teferra Anbessa. 1995. "Brief phonology of Shabo (Mekeyir)". Robert Nicolaï et Franz Rottland, eds., Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24-29 août 1992. Proceedings, pp.169-193. Köln, Köppe Verlag. Sep. 2, 1989 (Nilo-Saharan 7), Hamburg: Helmut Buske. pp. 29-38. (Used in this article.)
• Christopher Ehret. 1995. "Do Krongo and Shabo belong in Nilo-Saharan?". Robert Nicolaï et Franz Rottland, eds., Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24-29 août 1992. Proceedings, pp.169-193. Köln, Köppe Verlag. Sep. 2, 1989 (Nilo-Saharan 7), Hamburg: Helmut Buske. pp. 389-402. ISBN 3-927620-72-6.

[edit] Turkana

• Dimmendaal, Gerrit (1983) The Turkana language. Dordrecht: Foris. ISBN 9070176831
• Barrett, A. (1988) English-Turkana dictionary. Nairobi: MacMillan Kenya. ISBN 0333445775
• Barrett, A. (1990) Turkana-English dictionary. London: MacMillan. ISBN 0333536541

[edit] Aari

• "Notes on the Aari Language", Richard Hayward. Chapter 8 of Omotic Language Studies, ed. Richard Hayward. SOAS: London 1990.

[edit] Anfillo

(last four not yet used)

• Goshu, Debela & Demeke, Girma Awgichew [2005] 'Some points on Anfillo' (unpublished handout, International Conference on Endangered Ethiopian Languages, Addis Ababa 27-30 April 2005).
• Wedekind, Klaus & Wedekind, Charlotte (2002) 'Sociolinguistic Survey Report on Languages of the Asosa-Begi-Komosha area, Part II' (SIL Electronic Survey Report 2002-055). [contains a map]
• Gebre Bizuneh (1994) 'The Phonology of Anfillo' (unpublished M.A. thesis, Addis Abeba University)
• Amanuel Alemayehu (2001) 'Noun Phrase in Anfillo' (unpublished B.A. thesis, Addis Abeba University)

Yigezu, Moges & Yehualashet (1995) 'Anfillo: a sketch of grammar and lexicon', Afrikanistisch Arbeitspapiere, 43. Cologne: University of Cologne/Institute of African Studies.

• Yigezu, Moges (1995b) 'Dying twice: the case of Anfillo languages', Afrikanistisch Arbeitspapiere, 43. Cologne: University of Cologne/Institute of African Studies.

[edit] Bench

• Mary J. Breeze, "A Sketch of the Phonology and Grammar of Gimira (Benchnon)", in Richard J. Hayward (ed.), Omotic Language Studies, SOAS: London 1990.

[edit] Ongota

• Fleming, Harold 2002. "Ongota Lexicon: English-Ongota". Mother Tongue, VII, pp. 39-65.
• Mikesh, P. and Seelig, J.M. 1992. "Ongota or Birale: a moribund language of Gemu-Gofa (Ethiopia)". Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, 3,3:181-225.
• Savà, Graziano and Mauro Tosco 2000. A sketch of Ongota, a dying language of southwest Ethiopia. Studies in African Linguistics 29.2.59-136.

[edit] Oromigna

• Foot, Edwin C. (1913, Reprint: 1968) A Galla-English, English-Galla dictionary. Farnborough, Gregg. ISBN 0-576116-22-X
• Tamene Bitima (2000) A dictionary of Oromo technical terms. Oromo - English. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. ISBN 3-89645-062-X [6]
• Tilahun Gamta (1989) Oromo-English dictionary. Addis Ababa: University Printing Press.
• Gragg, Gene B. et al. (ed., 1982) Oromo Dictionary. Monograph (Michigan State University. Committee on Northeast African Studies) no. 12. East Lansing, Mich. : African Studies Center, Michigan State Univ.
• Griefenow-Mewis, C. and Tamene Bitima (1994) Lehrbuch des Oromo. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. ISBN 3-927620-05-X [7]
• Mohammed Ali, Zaborski, A. (1990) Handbook of the Oromo Language. Wroclaw, Poland: Polska Akademia Nauk. ISBN 8-304033-16-X [8]
• Praetorius, Franz (1872, Reprint: 1973) Zur Grammatik der Gallasprache. Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms. ISBN 3-487065-56-8
• Stroomer, Harry (1987) A comparative study of three Southern Oromo dialects in Kenya. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. ISBN 3-87118-846-8 [9]
• Taha M. Roba (2004) Modern Afaan Oromo grammar : qaanqee galma Afaan Oromo. Bloomington, IN : Authorhouse. ISBN 1-418474-80-0

[edit] Qemant language

(also Kemant)

SIL: http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/031/ (excellent resource - Sociolinguistic, cultural, and some analysis of the language)

[edit] Qwara language

• "Kaïliña — a "new" Agaw dialect and its implications for Agaw dialectology". In Voice and Power. The Culture of Language in North-East Africa. Ed. by R.J. Hayward & I. Lewis. pp. 1-19. London, SOAS. 1996 (March). ISBN 0-7286-0257-1.

[edit] Saho language

(Irob)

[edit] Sidamo

• Anbessa Teferra (2000) A grammar of Sidaama. Doctoral dissertation. Jerusalem, Israel: The Hebrew University.
• Gasparini, A. (1983) Sidamo-English dictionary. Bologna, Italy: E.M.I.

[edit] Somali

• Diriye Abdullahi, Mohamed. 2000. Le Somali, dialectes et histoire, PH.D. dissertation, Université de Montréal
• Saeed, John Ibrahim. Somali Reference Grammar. Springfield, VA: Dunwoody Press, 1993. (ISBN 0931745977)
• Saeed, John Ibrahim. Somali. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V., 1999.

[edit] Tigrinya

• Amanuel Sahle (1998) Säwasǝw Tǝgrǝñña bǝsäffiw. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press. ISBN 1-56902-096-5 Grammar
• Dan'el Täxlu Räda (1996, Eth. Cal.) Zäbänawi säwasəw kʷ'ankʷ'a Təgrəñña. Mäx'älä Grammar
• Eritrean People's Liberation Front (1985) Dictionary, English-Tigrigna-Arabic. Rome: EPLF.
• Kane, Thomas L. (2000) Tigrinya-English Dictionary (2 vols). Springfield, VA: Dunwoody Press. ISBN 1-881265-68-4
• Leslau, Wolf (1941) Documents Tigrigna (Éthiopien Septentrional): Grammaire et Textes. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck.
• Mason, John (Ed.) (1996) Säwasǝw Tǝgrǝñña, Tigrinya Grammar. Lawrenceville, NJ, USA: Red Sea Press. ISBN 0-932415-20-2 (ISBN 0-932415-21-0, paperback)
• Praetorius, F. (1871) Grammatik der Tigriñasprache in Abessinien. Halle. ISBN 3-487-05191-5 (1974 reprint) Grammar
• Täxästä Täxlä et al. (1989, Eth. Cal.) Mäzgäbä k'alat Təgrəñña bə-Təgrəñña. Addis Ababa: Nəgd matämiya dərəǧǧət. Dictionary
• Ullendorff, E. (1985) A Tigrinya Chrestomathy. Stuttgart: F. Steiner. ISBN 3-515-04314-4
• Ze'im Girma (1983) Lǝsanä Ag’azi. Asmara: Government Printing Press.

[edit] Weyto

• Bender, M. L., J. D. Bowen, C. A. Cooper, and C. A. Ferguson, eds. 1976. Language in Ethiopia. Oxford University Press.
• Bender, M. L., ed. 1983. Nilo-Saharan language studies. Dallas, Texas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
• Bruce, James M. 1790. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1768-73 (5 vols.) Edinburgh: G. Robinson & J. Robinson. (vol. iii, p. 403)
• Cohen, Marcel. Nouvelles Etudes d'Ethiopien Méridional. Paris: Champion. pp. 358-371.
• Dimmendaal, Gerrit. 1989. "On Language Death in Eastern Africa", in Dorian, Nancy C. (ed.), Investigating obsolescence: Studies in language contraction and death (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 7.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Gamst, Frederick. 1965. Travel and research in northern Ethiopia. (Notes for Anthropologists and Other Field Workers in Ethiopia 2.) Addis Ababa Institute for Ethiopian Studies, Haile Selassie I University.
• Gamst, Frederick. 1979. "Wayto ways: Change from hunting to peasant life", in Hess (ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, Session B. Chicago: University of Illionis at Chicago Circle.
• Gamst, Frederick. 1984. "Wayto", in Weeks, R. V. (ed.), Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey, 2nd edition, (2 vols.) Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
• Griaule, Marcel. Les flambeurs d'hommes. Paris 1934.
• Mittwoch, Eugen. 1907. "Proben aus dem amharischen Volksmund", Mittheilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin 10(2), pp. 185-241.
• Sommer, Gabriele. "A survey on language death in Africa", in Matthias Brenziger (ed.), Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter 1992.

[edit] Zay

• Ambaw Demissie (1990), The phonology of Zay: A generative approach. M.A. thesis. Addis Ababa University.
• Getu Shikur (1999), Morphology of Zay. M.A. thesis. Addis Ababa University.
• Wolf Leslau (1999), Zway Ethiopic Documents. Aethiopische Forschungen, Band 51. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-04162-5.
• Ronny Meyer (2005), Das Zay: Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Äthiosemitisch). Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, vol. 25. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. ISBN 3-89645-541-9.

SIL: http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/024/ (on whole language area, not just Zay language - statistical & sociolinguistic, not analytical and descriptive of the language)

[edit] Statistical

• Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
• Marcus, Harold G. Editor. Hudson, Grover. Associate Editor. New Trends in Ethiopian Studies:Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Michigan State University 5-10 September 1994: Volume II: Social Sciences. NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 1994. (esp. agricultural and economic [i.e. developmental])

[edit] Politics

• Marcus, Harold G. Editor. Hudson, Grover. Associate Editor. New Trends in Ethiopian Studies:Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Michigan State University 5-10 September 1994: Volume II: Social Sciences. NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 1994. (1977-1994)