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A Grammar of Mursi

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Mursi is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by a small group of people who live in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and is one of the most endangered languages of the country. Based on the fieldwork tha...
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  • 11 March 2021
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Mursi is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by a small group of people who live in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and is one of the most endangered languages of the country.
Based on the fieldwork that the author conducted in beautiful villages of the Mursi community, this descriptive grammar is organized into fourteen chapters rich in examples and an appendix containing four transcribed texts. The readers are thus provided with a clear and useful tool, which constitutes and important addition to our knowledge of Mursi and of other related languages spoken in the area.
Besides being an empirical data source for linguists interested in typology and endangered language description and documentation, the grammar constitutes an invaluable gift to the speech community.
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Price: $266.00
Pages: 666
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Africa
Publication Date: 11 March 2021
ISBN: 9789004449893
Format: Hardcover
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Firew Girma Worku, Ph.D. (2020), James Cook University, is an Adjunct Research Fellow of the College of Arts, Society and Education at that university. He specializes in Nilo-Saharan languages particularly in Surmic languages. His main interests consist describing and documenting endangered languages, linguistic anthropology, and typology.