Highland East Cushitic languages

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Highland East Cushitic
Geographic
distribution:
Ethiopia
Genetic
classification
:
Afro-Asiatic
 Cushitic
  East Cushitic
   Highland East Cushitic
Subdivisions:


Highland East Cushitic is a grouping of Afro-Asiatic languages in south central Ethiopia. The East Cushitic languages are divided two groupings, the other half being Lowland East Cushitic. [1]

Of the languages in this subgroup, Hadiyya and Libido are very closely related to each other, and also Kambaata and Alaba are very similar to each other.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] References

  • Ethnologue entry for Highland East Cushitic languages
  • Hudson, Grover. 1981. The Highland East Cushitic family vine. Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika 3.97-124.
  • Hudson, Grover. 1988. The Highland Cushitic hypothesis. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies (Addis Ababa, 1984), Taddese Beyene, ed., 693-696. Birmingham, England: Elm Press.
  • Hudson, Grover. 1989. Highland East Cushitic Dictionary (Kuschitische Sprachstudien 7). Hamburg: Buske.
  • Hudson, Grover. 2005. Highland East Cushitic languages, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Keith Brown, ed., 294-298. Elsevier: Oxford.
  • Hudson, Grover. 2007a. Highland East Cushitic morphology, Morphologies of Asian and African Languages, vol. 1, Alan S. Kaye, ed., 529-545. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns.
  • Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses.‭ Journal of Ethiopian Studies 14: 131-76.
  • Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies.‭ Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs, 52. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.