Browsing Dissertations & Theses by Author "Ahland, Michael Bryan"
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LANGUAGE DEATH IN MESMES: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND HISTORICAL-COMPARATIVE EXAMINIATION OF A DISAPPEARING LANGUAGE
Ahland, Michael Bryan (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 ...