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Title:The Lexicon: A Key to Culture; with Illustrations from Afar Word Lists
Author:Bliese, Loren F.
Year:1970
Periodical:Journal of Ethiopian Studies
Volume:8
Issue:2
Period:July
Pages:1-19
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:Afar language
dictionaries (form)
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/41965807
Abstract:Comprises two sections: in the first section the extent of the relationship between language and culture and, specifically, the value of linguistic studies to ethnography is discussed (Historical background of ethnolinguistics - The importance in synchronic studies - The importance in diachronic studies - Some cultural inferences based on the Afar lexicon); the second section presents illustrations of the ideas presented in the first section, based on some one thousand lexical language cards gathered during three years of contact with the Afar (Danakil) tribe in Ethiopia (Lexical elaboration as an indication of cultural interests - General terms as an indication of a lack of cultural focus - Genetic relationship indicated by vocabulary - Lexical borrowing as ethnographic data). Notes.
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