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Observations on ‘Gurage Notes’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2012

Wolf Leslau
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In his review-article ‘Gurage Notes’ (Africa, xx, 1950, pp. 335-44) of my Ethiopic Documents: Gurage (1950), Mr. Ullendorff criticizes the method I employed in collecting the material and raises some questions in relation to the grammatical description. Mr. Ullendorff makes many sweeping statements of principle concerning which I would like to say a few words.

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Research Article
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Africa , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1951 , pp. 139 - 145
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Copyright © International African Institute 1951

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page 142 note 1 The palatalized velars such as kv, gv, and so on, are expressed in the Ethiopic alphabet by k, g followed by y.

page 144 note 1 Polotsky says clearly that ‘le langage de Asfaou représente sans doute sa form ažá (op. cit. 138) and elsewhere ‘mon informateur ne parle pas le tchaha proprement dit’ (p. 140). There are, unfortunately, inconsistencies in the speech of his informant resulting from his wish to speak Chaha. Thus, p. 140, ‘decrease’ is qäbbäräm in Eža, and qäpäräm Chaha, ‘plant’ is also qäbbäräm in Eža and qäpäràm in Chaha, contrary to what is given in Polotsky.