Muher language

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Muher
Spoken in: Ethiopia
Total speakers: 90,000 [1]
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Muher
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
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Muher is an Ethiopian Semitic language belonging to the Gurage group.


[edit] References

  • Cohen, Marcel (1936). Etudes d’éthiopien méridional. Paris: Guenther.
  • Hetzron, Robert (1977). The Gunnan-Gurage languages. Napoli : Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
  • Leslau, Wolf (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. (ISBN 3-447-02041-5)
  • Leslau, Wolf (1981). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background, Part IV : Muher. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner. (ISBN 3-515-03657-1)
  • Meyer, Ronny (2005). "The morpheme yä- in Muher", in: Lissan - Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 19/1, pp. 40-63.
  • Polotsky, Hans Jakob (1939). "L labialisé en gouragué mouher", in: GLECS 3, pp. 66-68 [=Collected Papers by H. J. Polotsky (Jerusalem: Magnes press 1971), pp. 516-518].
  • Rose, Sharon (1996). "Allomorphy and Morphological Categories in Muher", in: G. Hudson (ed.), Essays in Gurage Language and Culture (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), pp. 205-227.
  • Rose, Sharon (2000). "Velar Lenition in Muher Gurage", in: Lingua Posnaniensis 42, pp. 107-116.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Unseth, Peter. 2001. Review of: Sound mutations: the morphophonology of Chaha, by Degif Petros Banksira.