Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This category contains articles with Amharic-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages.
Although rare, large rats have been known to fatally wound the snake by scratching, biting, or even poking one or both of the snake's eyes out. Of course, the rat ends up succumbing to the venom, but the snake will often sustain eye injury, potentially becoming blind, and severe bites to the snout region leave the snake vulnerable to infections ...
There are multiple ways to write some letters in Amharic as some of the sounds that were once used in Geʽez are non-existent in modern Amharic. At the cost of redundancy, Amharic speakers retain the archaic letters in their orthography to preserve the Geʽez origins of many of their words. Also, the English approximations are sometimes very ...
The two species of shield-nosed cobras, the Cape coral snake (Aspidelaps lubricus) and the shield-nosed cobra (Aspidelaps scutatus) [4]: p.76 The two species of black desert cobras or desert black snakes, Walterinnesia aegyptia and Walterinnesia morgani , neither of which rears upwards and produces a hood when threatened [ 4 ] : p.65
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.
Although the name applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species, in particular, the common or green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), [citation needed] which is the largest snake in the world by weight, and the second longest after the reticulated python. [citation needed]
Rev. O. Stavem translated the name as "The Umamba (a kind of snake) of Maqula". [3] Africanist Harold Scheub gave his name as "Mamba of the Pools". [4]Godwin and Groenewald interpret the name Maquba as "the dustblower", also the name of the Zulu month when strong winds blow.
Bankon (Abo, Abaw, Bo, Bon) is a Bantu language spoken in the Moungo department of the Littoral Province of southwestern Cameroon. [1] It has a lexical similarity of 86% with Rombi which is spoken in the nearby Meme department of Southwest Province. [1] Bankon is the endonym. Abo is an administrative name.