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LANGUAGE DEATH IN MESMES: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE EXAMINIATION OF A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)
Mesmes is a recently extinct language within the Peripheral West Gurage subgroup of the Ethio-Semitic Gurage cluster in southwestern Ethiopia. While Leslau (1979) and Hetzron (1972 and 1977), among many others, have examined ...
LINGUISTIC VARIATION WITHIN GUMUZ: A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HISTORICAL CHANGE AND INTELLIGIBILITY
(University of Texas at Arlington, 2004-05)
The Gumuz language is spoken by roughly 160,000 people across the Blue Nile region of Ethiopia and Sudan (Grimes 2004). Gumuz is the sole member of the Gumuz family which is part of the larger Nilo-Saharan super-family ...