Paris: Librairie Klincksieck, 1956. — xx + 277 p. — (Collection linguistique publiée par la Société de Linguistique de Paris 57). The Gafat language is an extinct South Ethiopian Semitic language that was once spoken along Abbay River (Blue Nile) in Ethiopia, and later speakers pushed south of Gojjam in modern day Eastern Wellega Oromoia region. The records of this language are...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1979. — 856 p. Wolf Leslau, surely the greatest Semiticist linguist of the post-wargeneration, whose work established Ethiopian linguistics as an essentialpart of Semitic studies.
Rüdiger Köppe, 2005. — 426 S. — (Grammatical Analyzes of African Languagess/Grammatische Analysen afrikanischer Sprachen 25). Zay is an Ethiosemitic language and therefore belongs to the Afro-Asiatic branch. It is spoken in Ethiopia on the five islands of Lake Zway, but also on the shore and the surrounding mainland. The population census does not count the Zay people as one...
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