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Lines on an African-Semitic language: The case of Tigrinya

  • Jack Fellman

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).


*JACK FELLMAN, Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, Bar Ilan University, RAMAT GAN 52900, ISRAEL

Published Online: 2008-02-12
Published in Print: 2005-12-01

© 2006 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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