单词 | omotic |
释义 | Omoticn.adj. A. n. A group of languages spoken in western and south-western Ethiopia, forming a subfamily within the Afro-Asiatic language family.Before 1969, these languages were classified as West Cushitic within Afro-Asiatic (cf. quots. 1971, 1998). ΚΠ 1969 H. C. Fleming in D. F. McCall et al. E. Afr. Hist. 4 A very extensive language and/or dialect continuum, aptly named Ometo..constitutes a third division of West Cushitic.] 1971 M. Bender in Anthropol. Ling. 13 168 The setting up of Omotic (the former West Cushitic) as a sixth family under the Afroasiatic heading, and the name ‘Omotic’ are due to Fleming. 1998 Current Anthropol. 39 139 Among the modifications of Greenberg's original designations of language families is the discovery, by Harold Fleming (1969), that Omotic is a family in itself, separate from Cushitic, to which it had been assigned. B. adj. Designating a language or languages within Omotic; of or relating to Omotic. ΚΠ 1972 H. C. Fleming in M. Bender et al. Lang. in Ethiopia (title) Classification of Cushitic and Omotic languages. 1977 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1975 203 Recently a long-recognized cleavage between two groups of Cushitic languages..has been seen as being of sufficient profundity to require the postulation of a further sub-family of Afro-Asiatic—the Omotic sub-family. 1997 A. V. Lyovin Introd. Langs. World v. 188 This is still a very controversial issue since the so-called Omotic languages are very different from each other and exhibit few common features. 1999 S. Romaine Communicating Gender iii. 71 The problem of acquisition is even more clear-cut in cases like the Omotic language Dizi, spoken by about 7,000 people in southwestern Ethiopia, where there are only two noun classes. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。