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The top ten search queries for ለካቲት (February)
I thought I would post something today that might interest some of you out there. Here is a list of the top 10 most searched words for the dictionary section this last month. Enjoy and feel the love… 1 love 2 hello 3 i 4 you 5 boy 6 to 7 train 8 ፍቕሪ 9 [...]
February 22, 2009
Tags: top ten Posted in: Linguistics, top ten search queries 
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“Modern Dictionary with New Methods”
Come one, come all. There is a new dictionary for sale in Asmara. It’s by Dr. Kidanemariam and he worked 10 years to make it a reality. Just amazing. A new monolingual, Tigrinya-Tigrinya, dictionary entitled, roughly translated into “Modern Dictionary with New Method,” by Dr. Kidanemariam Zerezghi was launched on October 24, 2008 at Emba [...]
October 27, 2008
Tags: Dr. Kidanemariam, tigrinya, Tigrinya-Tigrinya dictionary Posted in: Eritrea, language, Linguistics, Tigrigna One Comment
New on the Eritrean dictionary scene…
After months of delay, Asmarino.com has now completed its metamorphosis to become Delina.com. Asmarino.com is one of the oldest Eritrean community websites still running (the other is Dehai.org). It is based in the US, completely independent and serves as a forum for those Eritreans who oppose the Eritrean government or it’s politics. It’s also multilingual [...]
September 11, 2008
Tags: afar, amharic, Arabic, Asmarino.com, blin, Delina.org, dictionary, Ge'ez, Kunama, Tigre, tigrinya Posted in: blogoshpere, Eritrea, language, Linguistics No Comments
US politics, kool-aid, Obama and a little linguistics
I assure you that this post is about linguistics just as much as it is about American politics. “…the students go and, sort of, drink the kool-aid of a wonderful speech…” This short quote is from Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell who was trying to convince a group of college students to support Hillary Clinton as [...]
September 1, 2008
Tags: Clinton, kool-aid, meme, Obama Posted in: Linguistics, world events No Comments
Is Swahili a Pidgin?
A blog that I read recently had a post that described the east-African language of Swahili, as a pidgin. Here is a quote: …my mother was born in East Africa (Uganda) and I wanted to feel a trace of what she once knew. Being under this sky, on this land, the pidgin that is Swahili [...]
July 21, 2008
Tags: Linguistics, pidgin, swahili Posted in: Africa, language, Linguistics 6 Comments
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