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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 ...
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]
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.
Callaway's version begins thus: a chief marries two sisters, one of them becomes the chieftainess, to the envy of the other. Both sisters are pregnant and give birth, the queen's sister takes the queen's first three children and kills them. On the fourth pregnancy, the queen gives birth to an imamba (snake) she names Umamba ("The imamba-man").
Arwe ("wild beast" in Geʽez [3]) is a snake-king who rules for four hundred years [4] over the land that is to become Ethiopia. He is a giant serpent ("No, Arwe is not beyond the hill, for the hill you see is Arwe" [ 5 ] ) to whom humans must sacrifice their virgin daughters and cattle to calm his endless hunger.