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Title: | Koegu vocabulary, with a reference to Kara |
Author: | Hieda, Osamu |
Year: | 1991 |
Periodical: | African Study Monographs: Supplementary Issue |
Issue: | 14 |
Pages: | 1-70 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | Kwegu Kwegu language dictionaries (form) |
External link: | http://repository.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2433/68358/1/ASM_S_14_1.pdf |
Abstract: | The Koegu people, numbering c. 300 individuals, live along the western bank of the Omo river in the extreme southwestern corner of Ethiopia. The Koegu language is a variant of the Kwegu-Muguji languages, which belong to the southeast Surmic group within the Surmic languages in the Nilo-Saharan phylum. The Koegu language is quite unique lexically and even syntactically in the Surmic languages. The uniqueness is due to language contact with the Omotic languages, in particular the Kara language. This short vocabulary presents Koegu words and their English translation, and also refers to Kara words as much as possible. It is based on field data collected between 1987 and 1990. The vocabulary is organized according to a classificatory system based on semantic association. The following classes are discerned: body parts, plants, animals, eating, clothing, dwelling, daily life, body action, action toward things, kinship, human being, social life, mental life, things, natural phenomena, ground, time, nature of things, miscellaneous. An index of English terms, listed alphabetically, is included. Bibliogr., notes. |