CLASSIFICA:Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: West: South: Ethiopic: North
OTHERSOURC:
Bender, Marvin L. 1976. "Two Ethio-Semitic Languages," in LE. LA
CONSONANTS:
p pʔ t̪ t̪ʔ k kʔ kʷ kʔʷ ʔ b d̪ d̪ʔ ɡ ɡʷ f s̪ s̪ʔ m n̪ l̪ r
STOPS: p pʔ b t̪ t̪ʔ d̪ d̪ʔ k kʔ ɡ kʷ kʔʷ ɡʷ ʔ
FRICATIVES:f s̪ s̪ʔ
NASALS:m n̪
LATERALS:l̪
VIBRANTS:r
MODIFIEDCO:c̄ all but cʔ ʔ h
GLIDES: j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL: i e
CENTRALVOW:ɨ ǝ a
BACKVOWELS:u o
LONGVOWELS:v̄ ?
STRESS:penult
NOUNNUMBER:s p
GENDER:m f
DEMONSTRAT:2
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2mf 5mf 3mf 6mf
SYNTAX:VSO AN/NA NG N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
COMMENTS:Geez is still used as a liturgical language by the Orthodox church.
NUMBER:1582
LANGUAGE:Tigre
DIALECT:Mensa
LOCATION:NW Eritrea
POPULATION:117,000
CLASSIFICA:Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: West: South: Ethiopic: North
DICTIONARY:
Da Milano, Prospero Maria. 1936. Vocabulario pratico: italiano-tigray-amarico. Milan: Genio. Littman, Enno and Maria Höfner. 1962 Wörterbuch der Tigrè-Sprache: Tigrè-Deutsch-Englisch. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner.
GRAMMAR:
Leslau, Wolf. 1945. "Grammatical Sketches in Tigré (North Ethiopic), Dialect of Mensa," JAOS 65, 164-203.
TEXTBOOKS:Camperio, Manfredo. 1936. Manuale pratico della lingua tigrè con due dizionarietti. Milan: V. Hoepli.
OTHERSOURC:Palmer, Frank R. 1962. The Morphology of the Tigre Noun. London: School of Oriental and African Studies, Univ of London.
CONSONANTS:
pʔ t tʔ k qʔ ʔ b d ɡ č čʔ ɡ̌ f s sʔ m n ñ l r
STOPS: pʔ b t tʔ d k ɡ qʔ ʔ
AFFRICATES:č čʔ ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:f s sʔ
NASALS:m n ñ
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL: i e æ
CENTRALVOW:ǝ a
BACKVOWELS:u o
MODIFIEDVO:vowel harmony
STRESS:VH
NOUNNUMBER:s p
GENDER:m f
DEMONSTRAT:2
ARTICLES: def
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2mf 5mf 3mf 6mf
SYNTAX:SOV AN/NA NG DN/ND NUM-N N-POSS
PREPPOST:PREP
NUMBER:1583
LANGUAGE:Tigrinya
LOCATION:N Ethiopia (W Tigre)
POPULATION: 5.1 million
CLASSIFICA:Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: West: South: Ethiopic: North
DICTIONARY:Bassano, Francesco de. 1918. Vocabolario tigray-italiano e repertorio italiano-tigray. Rome: C. de Luigi.
DICTIONARY:Leslau, Wolf. 1976. Concise Amharic Dictionary. Berkeley: Univ of California Press.
GRAMMAR:
Leslau, Wolf. 1969. An Amharic Reference Grammar. Los Angeles: Dept. of Near Eastern and African Languages, UCLA. Cohen, Marcel. 1970. Traité de langue amharique. Paris: Institut d'Ethnologie.
TEXTBOOKS:Leslau, Wolf. 1968. Amharic Textbook. Berkeley: Univ of California Press.
CONSONANTS:
(p) (pʔ) t̪ t̪ʔ k kʔ ʔ b d̪ ɡ č čʔ ɡ̌ f s̪ (s̪ʔ) š h z̪ ž m n̪ ñ l ɾ
Cohen, Marcel. 1931. Études d'éthiopien méridional. Paris: Paul Geuthner. Cerulli, Enrico. 1936. La lingua e la storia di Harar. Rome: Istituto per l'Oriente.
OTHERSOURC:Gamkrelidze, Thomas V. 1966. "A Typology of Common Kartvelian," Lg 42, 69-83.
CONSONANTS:
ph pʔ th tʔ kh kʔ qh qʔ b d ɡ tsh tsʔ ćh ćʔ čh čʔ dz ɡ́ ɡ̌ s ś š x h z ź ɣ m n l r
STOPS:ph pʔ b th tʔ d kh kʔ ɡ qh qʔ
AFFRICATES:tsh tsʔ dz ćh ćʔ ɡ́ čh čʔ ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:s z ś ź š x ɣ h
NASALS:m n
LATERALS:l
VIBRANTS:r
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:e
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:o
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all
NUMBER:1596
LANGUAGE:Georgian
LOCATION:Georgia
POPULATION:3.3 million
CLASSIFICA:Kartvelian
GRAMMAR:
Tschenkéli, Kita. 1958. Einführung in die georgische Sprache, 2 vols. Zürich: Amirani. Chikobava, A. S. 1967. "Gruzinskij jazyk," in JNS 4, 22-61. Vogt, Hans. 1971. Grammaire de la langue géorgienne. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
TEXTBOOKS:
Tsibaxashvili, G. I. 1973. Elementarnyj kurs gruzinskogo jazyka. Tbilisi: Tbilisi Univ.
OTHERSOURC:
Robins, R. H. 1952. "Notes on the Phonetics of the Georgian Word," BSOAS 14, 55-72. Chikobáva. Arnol'd. 1971. Gruzinskij jazyk. Tbilisi: Ganatleba. AL 6:8.
CONSONANTS:
ph pʔ t̪h t̪ʔ kh kʔ qʔ b d̪ ɡ t̪sh t̪sʔ čh čʔ d̪z ɡ̌ s̪ š χ h v z̪ ž ʁ m n̪ l̪ r
STOPS:ph pʔ b t̪h t̪ʔ d̪ kh kʔ ɡ qʔ
AFFRICATES:t̪sh t̪sʔ d̪z čh čʔ ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:v s̪ z̪ š ž χ ʁ h
NASALS:m n̪
LATERALS:l̪
VIBRANTS:r
GLIDES:j
VOWELS:
i u e o a
FRONTVOWEL:i e
CENTRALVOW:a
BACKVOWELS:u o
SYLLABLE:(c)(c)(c)(c)(c)(c)v(c)(c)(c)(c)(c)
STRESS:initial
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:3
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 *3 *6
SYNTAX:SOV AN/(NA) GN DN NUM-N POSS-N/(N-POSS) D+Num+A+N
ERGATIVE:Erg
COMMENTS:yes
NUMBER:1597
LANGUAGE:Svan
LOCATION:NW Georgia
POPULATION:35,000
CLASSIFICA:Kartvelian
GRAMMAR:Topuria, V. T. 1967. "Svanskij jazyk," in JNS 4, 77-94.
CONSONANTS:
ph pʔ t̪h t̪ʔ kh kʔ qh qʔ b d̪ ɡ t̪sh t̪sʔ čh čʔ d̪z ɡ̌ s̪ š x h (v) z̪ ž ɣ m n̪ l̪ r
STOPS:ph pʔ b t̪h t̪ʔ d̪ kh kʔ ɡ qh qʔ
AFFRICATES:t̪sh t̪sʔ d̪z čh čʔ ɡ̌
FRICATIVES:(v) s̪ z̪ š ž x ɣ h
NASALS:m n̪
LATERALS:l̪
VIBRANTS:r
GLIDES:j w
VOWELS:
FRONTVOWEL:i e
CENTRALVOW:ǝ a
BACKVOWELS:u o
LONGVOWELS:v̄ all
STRESS:phonemic
NOUNNUMBER:s p
DEMONSTRAT:2
PRONOUNS:
1 4 2 5 *3 *6
SYNTAX:SOV AN
ERGATIVE:Erg
PREPPOST:PREP/POST
NUMBER:1598
LANGUAGE:Mingrelian
ALTERNATEN:Zan
LOCATION:W Georgia
POPULATION:300,000
CLASSIFICA:Kartvelian: Zan
GRAMMAR:Kiziria, A. I. 1967. "Zanskij jazyk," in JNS 4, 62-76.
CONSONANTS:
ph pʔ t̪h t̪ʔ kh kʔ qʔ ʔ b d̪ ɡ t̪sh t̪sʔ čh čʔ d̪z ɡ̌ (f) s̪ š x h v z̪ ž ɣ m n̪ l̪ r
Arbelaitz, O.M. 1968. Diccionario castellano-vasco y vasco-castellano. Bilbao: La Gran Enciclopedia Vasca. Eiguren, Joe V. ed, 1974. English-Basque, Basque-English Dictionary. Nampa, Idaho: Basque Publications.
GRAMMAR:
N'Diaye, Geneviиve. 1970. Structure de dialecte basque de Maya. The Hague: Mouton. Lafitte, Pierre. 1962. Grammaire basque. Bayonne, Ikas.
TEXTBOOKS:
Lopez Mendizбbal, Isaac 1949. La lengua vasca. Buenos Aires: Editorial Vasca Ekin. Eiguren, Joe V. 1974. How to Learn to Speak Basque. Nampa, Idaho: Basque Publications.
OTHERSOURC:
Lochak, Dorita. 1960. "Basque Phonemics," AL 2:3, 12-31. Bouda. Karl. 1949. Baskisch-kaukasische Etymologien. Heidelbeng. AL 6:8 & 8:3.
CONSONANTS:
p t̪ (c) k b d̪ (ɟ) ɡ ts (ṭs) č (f) s (ṣ) š x m n̪ ñ l ʎ ɾ r