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The Tigre Language of GindaË, Eritrea
Short Grammar and Texts
Series: - Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 75
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In The Tigre Language of GindaË, Eritrea, David L. Elias documents the dialect of the Tigre language that is spoken in the town of GindaË in eastern Eritrea. While the language of Tigre is spoken by perhaps one million people in Eritrea and Sudan, the population of GindaË is fewer than 50,000 people. Elias describes basic aspects of phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicography. In contrast to other dialects of Tigre, of which approximately a dozen have been identified, Tigre of GindaË exhibits the only recorded examples in Tigre of gender-specific first person possessives, e.g. ÊÉnye âmy eyeâ (masc) vs. ÊÉnÄe âmy eyeâ (masc/fem), and a new form of the negative of the verb of existence, yahallanni âthere is notâ. Contact with Arabic and Tigrinya has resulted in numerous loanwords and a few biforms in Tigre of GindaË.
David L. Elias, Ph.D. (2005), Harvard University, is an independent scholar of African history and languages. He has taught at Harvard University, the University of Asmara (Eritrea), the University of Montana, and Marymount University (Arlington, VA).
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