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Subject–verb agreement. All Amharic verbs agree with their subjects; that is, the person, number, and (in the second- and third-person singular) gender of the subject of the verb are marked by suffixes or prefixes on the verb.
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Among other works, his books include Amharic Verb Morphology (his PhD dissertation - a generative study of Amharic verbal morphology), Language in Ethiopia (co-edited with C. Ferguson, C. Bowen, R. Cooper), Nilo-Saharan Language Studies, The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, Preliminary Gaam-English-Gaam Dictionary, Omotic Verb Morphology, and ...
[12] [29] [1] [30] [31] Amharic is the most widely spoken and written language in Ethiopia. As of 2018, Amharic was spoken by 31.8 million native speakers in Ethiopia [6] with over 25 million secondary speakers in the nation. [6] Although additional languages are used, Amharic is still predominantly spoken by all ethnic groups in Addis Ababa.
Historically linked to the peninsular homeland of Old South Arabian, of which only one language, Razihi, remains, Ethiopia and Eritrea contain a substantial number of Semitic languages; the most widely spoken are Amharic in Ethiopia, Tigre in Eritrea, and Tigrinya in both. Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia.
Essentials of Amharic. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Ethiopian Semitic archaic heterogeneity; Ethiopian Semitic negative nonpast; Ethiopian Semitic Overview; Ethiopic Documents: Argobba Grammar and Dictionary; Geoloinguistic evidence for Ethiopian semitic prehistory; Gurage Studies: Collected Articles; Hudson, Grover (1989). Highland East ...
David Appleyard (born 1950 in Leeds, England) is a British academic and an specialist in Ethiopian languages and linguistics.. He is Professor Emeritus of the Languages of the Horn of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the University of London, where he specialized in Amharic and other Ethiopian Semitic languages, as well as various Cushitic languages of the region.