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a tigrinya letter from an eritrean notable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2005

edward ullendorff
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Abstract

tigrinya (t[schwa]gr[schwa]ňňa) is, next to amharic, the most widely spoken semitic language in ethiopia, mainly in the tigre province and in eritrea. in most respects it is closer to the orthodox semitic typology than amharic. in terms of the number of semitic language speakers in general it follows arabic and amharic and surpasses hebrew by those who speak that language indigenously.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 295 - 297
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school of oriental and african studies, university of london, 2005

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chairman's note: the editorial board wishes to draw attention to the remarkable record of dedication to scholarship evidenced in this contribution. professor ullendorff, formerly for many years chairman of our board, is here shown to have been engaged half a century ago in the academic study of a language until recently long obliged by political circumstance to remain obscure. at the time that he received this letter, few can have been certain that it would be spoken in an independent nation of the twenty-first century. we commend his example to our readers.