Fekede Menuta
Biographic Data
| ID | 6795879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fekede Menuta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fekede |
| FAMILY NAME | Menuta |
| SIGNATURE | MENUTA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hawassa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8035-5359 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The classification of Gurage languages
The objective of this study was to re-examine the classification of Gurage language varieties within the Ethiosemitic branch. Previous studies inconsistently grouped Muher, Mesqan, Inor, and Gyeto, using either lexical or morphological criteria for classification. The present study employed a mixed approach, combining quantitative lexical data with qualitative morphological parameters. A list of 255 words was collected from each language variety …
Chaha group
This chapter tackles the Chaha group, which consists of the Gurage varieties Chaha, Ezha, Gumer, and Gura. Labialization and palatalization abound across the Chaha group’s varieties both in lexicon and morphology. The depalatalization happens in the jussive base of verbs with palatal elements and weak verbs with final vocoid consonants I and U. Unlike Chaha, Gura, and Gumer, Ezha preserved gemination. Plural references of the language also manife…
Quantity expressions in the Gumer variety of Gurage
The aim of this study was to investigate how entities are conceptualized and quantified in the Gumer Variety of Gurage, a South Ethiosemitic language. It specifically uncovered the linguistic means used to express quantity and how the quantity expressions interact with a noun head in an NP, the predicate verb, and grammatical categories, such as gender, number, and definiteness. The topic is one of the marginalized areas as we do not find investi…
Spatial expressions in Gumer Gurage
The aim of this article was to investigate spatial expressions in the Gurage variety of Gumer. The methodology used was qualitative following the structuralism approach to linguistic description. The linguistic data were obtained from six key informants selected using purposive sampling in the Gumer district. As the researcher speaks Gumer Gurage, data verification and validation were made through the introspective method. The data were transcrib…
The worldwide use and meaning of the f-word
This article documents the increasing use of the English curse word fuck worldwide, as well as its degree of adaption into the host language, its syntactic function, and its meaning and its strength as taboo. Comparing the use of fuck with a special focus on the Nordic countries ( Norway, Denmark , and Iceland ) with its use in Eurasia and Africa (with different alphabets, namely Cyrillic in Russia , Devanāgarī in India and Ge’ez script in Ethiop…
The sociolinguistics and pragmatics of greetings in Sidama
The main objective of this study was to provide a descriptive account of the greeting system in Sidama, an Ethiopian Highland East Cushitic (HEC) language speaking people culture. Cross sectional and descriptive none interventional research design were followed. The research methodology used was qualitative. Sociolinguistic data were collected from six purposefully selected key informants who are native speakers of Sidama language who know the cu…
The worldwide use and meaning of the f-word
This article documents the increasing use of the English curse word fuck worldwide, as well as its degree of adaption into the host language, its syntactic function, and its meaning and its strength as taboo. Comparing the use of fuck with a special focus on the Nordic countries ( Norway, Denmark , and Iceland ) with its use in Eurasia and Africa (with different alphabets, namely Cyrillic in Russia , Devanāgarī in India and Ge’ez script in Ethiop…
The sociolinguistics and pragmatics of greetings in Sidama
The main objective of this study was to provide a descriptive account of the greeting system in Sidama, an Ethiopian Highland East Cushitic (HEC) language speaking people culture. Cross sectional and descriptive none interventional research design were followed. The research methodology used was qualitative. Sociolinguistic data were collected from six purposefully selected key informants who are native speakers of Sidama language who know the cu…
The worldwide use and meaning of the f-word
This article documents the increasing use of the English curse word fuck worldwide, as well as its degree of adaption into the host language, its syntactic function, and its meaning and its strength as taboo. Comparing the use of fuck with a special focus on the Nordic countries ( Norway, Denmark , and Iceland ) with its use in Eurasia and Africa (with different alphabets, namely Cyrillic in Russia , Devanāgarī in India and Ge’ez script in Ethiop…
Chaha group
This chapter tackles the Chaha group, which consists of the Gurage varieties Chaha, Ezha, Gumer, and Gura. Labialization and palatalization abound across the Chaha group’s varieties both in lexicon and morphology. The depalatalization happens in the jussive base of verbs with palatal elements and weak verbs with final vocoid consonants I and U. Unlike Chaha, Gura, and Gumer, Ezha preserved gemination. Plural references of the language also manife…
Quantity expressions in the Gumer variety of Gurage
The aim of this study was to investigate how entities are conceptualized and quantified in the Gumer Variety of Gurage, a South Ethiosemitic language. It specifically uncovered the linguistic means used to express quantity and how the quantity expressions interact with a noun head in an NP, the predicate verb, and grammatical categories, such as gender, number, and definiteness. The topic is one of the marginalized areas as we do not find investi…
Spatial expressions in Gumer Gurage
The aim of this article was to investigate spatial expressions in the Gurage variety of Gumer. The methodology used was qualitative following the structuralism approach to linguistic description. The linguistic data were obtained from six key informants selected using purposive sampling in the Gumer district. As the researcher speaks Gumer Gurage, data verification and validation were made through the introspective method. The data were transcrib…
The classification of Gurage languages
The objective of this study was to re-examine the classification of Gurage language varieties within the Ethiosemitic branch. Previous studies inconsistently grouped Muher, Mesqan, Inor, and Gyeto, using either lexical or morphological criteria for classification. The present study employed a mixed approach, combining quantitative lexical data with qualitative morphological parameters. A list of 255 words was collected from each language variety …
Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (4 works) · African Studies and Geopolitics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · African history and culture analysis (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)