Cushitic

How To Use Cushitic In A Sentence

• Note 125: Southern Cushitic Ma'a roró "plain"; proto-Ruvu * - lolo "valley. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• This noun derived from an old Southern Cushitic verb that originally meant "to shout. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• Note 23: Southern Cushitic Dahalo - dééla "girl not yet of child-bearing age" final position * - a * - e * - dele is a regular Ma'a sound shift; proto-Wami * - dele "girl/young woman. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• For a discussion of the history of * Mulungu "God" and the acquisition of its Southern Cushitic nuance, see Ehret, African Classical Age, 167 – 8. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• Because our understanding of this affliction is limited, and also because there is an overall lack of additional medicinal or medical words shared among Ruvu and Southern Cushitic speakers, many questions remain about why such a word might have been borrowed, particularly since * chilalu, which was already present in Ruvu lexis, previously named a "shouting" affliction. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• You see, as noted above, these three language families are also quite closely related to Chadic (spoken mainly in Nigeria and Chad) and Cushitic (spoken around the Horn of Africa) - which means that 4 out of 5 branches of this family are native to Africa. Jabal al-Lughat
• The proto-Southern Cushitic root meant something like "crowd, gathering. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• Bondei mndele "girl"; Zigula mdele, "girl"; Ehret, The Historical Reconstruction of Southern Cushitic Phonology and Vocabulary, 164. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
• Regardless of which one they were, they apparently derive from the ejective stops of Proto-Afro-Asiatic, the ancestral proto-parent of the Semitic, Egyptian, Chadic, Cushitic and Berber languages. Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic?
• This word, like * mlao, derives from an exchange with Southern Cushitic speakers, though this exchange likely dates to the proto-Wami period of a couple of centuries later than the PNECB era. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE