Ep 33: Azeb Amha on Afroasiatic Language Documentation & Description

This month's episode is with Dr. Azeb Amha from the University of Leiden. Azeb is a linguist with interest in the morphology and syntax of Afroasiatic languages, linguistic typology and in the interdisciplinary fields of anthropological linguistics and sociolinguistics. She has worked extensively on the documentation of  languages in Ethiopia, inclunding  Oyda, Wolaitta and Zargulla. She is an ELDP grant recipient, and a depositor with Dobes and the Endangered Languages Archive. 

Things mentioned in this episode:

• Oyda language
• Aramaic language
• Wolaitta language
• Amharic language
• Semitic language family
• Omotic language family
• Cushitic language family
• Zargulla language deposit at ELAR:

  Documentation of house construction and terrace farming in Zargulla, an endangered Omotic language