Journal of the Royal African Society 27(107): 249-268.
Aasax
scu-asa
Very brief notes on Aramanik (= Aasax) with hardly more than a couple dozen words; still important as one of the very few sources on this extinct language.
Bender 1971
Bender, M. Lionel
1971
The languages of Ethiopia. A new lexicostatistic classification and some problems of diffusion.
A lexicostatistical study of most of the languages of Ethiopia. Includes slightly modified Swadesh wordlists for a large number of Cushitic, Omotic, Ethiosemitic, and Nilo-Saharan (Nilotic, Surmic, Koman, etc.) languages. Unfortunately, the survey suffers from numerous inaccuracies of phonetic transcription and semantic glossing, making it practically unusable as a primary source for any of the languages concerned.
Allan 1976
Allan, Edward J.
1976
Dizi.
In: M. L. Bender (ed.). The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia: 377-392. Michigan: African Studies Center.
Dizi
diz-dzi
A brief sketch of Dizi phonology and grammar, moderately illustrated by lexical material.
Ehret 1980
Ehret, Christopher
1980
The Historical Reconstruction of Southern Cushitic Phonology and Vocabulary.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
Aasax
scu-asa
Comparative phonology and etymology of South Cushitic languages. Contains some language data from previously unpublished sources, most importantly J. C. Winter's recordings of Aasax from 1974.
Bender 19832
Bender, M. Lionel
1983
Remnant Languages of Ethiopia and Sudan.
In: M. Lionel Bender (ed.). Nilo-Saharan Language Studies: 336-354. Michigan: East Lansing.
Shabo
shb-shb
Contains notes on various linguistic isolates and languages with questionable affiliation, including a wordlist for Shabo taken from unpublished field notes by Harvey Hoekstra.
Houtzagers 1985
Houtzagers, H. P.
1985
The Čakavian dialect of Orlec and the island of Cres.
Brill.
Chakavian, Orlec
slv-orl
The description of a Čakavian dialect with texts and dictionary.
Anbessa & Unseth 1989
Anbessa Teferra; Unseth, Peter
1989
Towards a classification of Shabo.
In: M. Lionel Bender (ed.). Topics in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics: 405-429. Hamburg: Helmut Bus\-ke Verlag.
Shabo
shb-shb
The paper contains some brief notes on Shabo phonology and grammar, as well as a rough draft of the Swadesh wordlist for Shabo.
Hayward 1990
Hayward, Richard J.
1990
Notes on the Aari language.
In: Richard J. Hayward (ed.). Omotic language studies: 425-493. University of London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
Ari
som-ari
Detailed grammatical description with ample illustrative material. No separate wordlist provided for the language.
Anbessa 1991
Anbessa Teferra
1991
A sketch of Shabo grammar.
In: M. Lionel Bender (ed.). Procee\-dings of the Fourth Nilo-Saharan Con\-fe\-rence. Bayreuth, Aug. 30 – Sep. 2, 1989: 371-387. Ham\-burg: Helmut Buske Verlag, pp. 371-387.
Shabo
shb-shb
Brief sketch of Shabo grammar, based upon the author's field data.
Bender 1994
Bender, M. Lionel
1994
Aroid (South Omotic) Lexicon.
Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere 38: 133-162.
Ari
som-ari
Mid-size collection of comparative vocabularies for Ari, Hamer, and Dime, concentrating on inherited South Omotic lexicon. Ari material incorporates data from [Hayward 1990] as well as R. Hayward's previously unpublished fieldwork, along with M. L. Bender's own collected lexica, marked separately.
Anbessa 1995
Anbessa Teferra
1995
Brief Phonology of Shabo (Mekeyir).
In: Robert Nicolaï, Franz Rottland (eds.). Actes du Cin\-qu\-ieme Colloque de Linguistique Nilo-Saharienne. 24-29 août 1992: 29-37. Köln: Rüdiger Köp\-pe Verlag.
Shabo
shb-shb
Brief sketch of Shabo phonology, based upon the author's field data.
Aklilu Yilma 2001
Aklilu Yilma
2001
Sociolinguistic Survey Report of the Nayi Language of Ethiopia.
SIL International.
Nayi
diz-nay
Not so much a true "sociolinguistic survey report" as a small sketch of Nayi phonology and grammar, containing the most reliable, but also, unfortunately, fairly scarce data on Nayi in print so far.
An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology. MA thesis.
Arlington: University of Texas.
Dizi
diz-dzi
Detailed description of the phonology and morphology of the Central variety of Dizi. Appendices include a nearly complete Swadesh wordlist for Dizi, reworked from the earlier wordlist by M. L. Bender.
Blažek 2008
Blažek, Václav
2008
A lexicostatistical comparison of Omotic languages.
In: John D. Bengtson (ed.). In Hot Pursuit of Language in Prehistory: Essays in the four fields of anthropology. In honor of Harold Crane Fleming: 57-148. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Ari; Dizi; Nayi
som-ari; diz-dzi; diz-nay
Collection of Swadesh wordlists for most known Omotic languages, with etymological comments by the author. For some languages, contains manuscript data from unpublished or hard-to-find sources.
Schnoebelen 2009
Schnoebelen, Tyler
2009
(Un)classifying Shabo: phylogenetic methods and results.
In: Peter K. Austin, Oliver Bond, Monik Charette, David Nathan, Peter Sells (eds.). Proceedings of Conference on Language Docu\-mentation and Linguistic Theory 2: 274-284. University of London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
Shabo
shb-shb
A paper on the genetic status of Shabo, including notes on the language taken from earlier sources as well as the author's own recently collected field data (including a complete 40-item ASJP-style wordlist).
Documentation and grammatical description of Chabu.
PhD Thesis: Addis Ababa University.
Shabo
shb-shb
A detailed grammatical description of Shabo (Chabu), well illustrated by lexical and syntactic examples and accompanied by a representative vocabulary.
Blench 2016
Blench, Roger
2016
Tegem-Amira: a previously unrecognised subgroup of Niger-Congo.
Ms.
Lafofa; Amira
laf-lff; laf-ami
A short essay on the history of the study and the current state of knowledge on Tegem and Amira. Includes previously unpublished fieldnotes on these languages, collected by R. Stevenson (Tegem) and the MacDiarmids (Amira).
Abbink 1993
Abbink, J.
Suri-English Basic Vocabulary.
In: Frankfurter Afrikanistische Blätter, 5, pp. 39-64.
Chai
srm-cai
A small vocabulary of Chai (contrary to the title, not at all restricted to "basic" vocabulary in the Swadesh understanding), somewhat inferior to the data in Last & Lucassen 1998, since the author pays little attention to the morphological constituency of Chai items (particularly verbs).
