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Lines on an African-Semitic language: The case of Tigrinya
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Jack Fellman
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February 12, 2008
Abstract
Only a very small number of Africa's some 2,000 languages are Semitic; and only a very few of these are spoken by sizeable populations and have governmental status. One of these is Tigrinya, the working and (de facto) official language of (Christian) Eritrea (alongside Arabic for Moslem Eritrea), Africa's newest and smallest state (1993).
Published Online: 2008-02-12
Published in Print: 2005-12-01
© 2006 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
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