Misplaced Pages

Hararghe

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

Hararghe ( Amharic : ሐረርጌ Harärge ; Harari : ሀረርጌይ Harärgeyi , Oromo : Harargee, Somali : Xararge ) was a province of eastern Ethiopia with its capital in Harar .

#797202

18-607: Hararghe is derived from the root Harari term "Gey" which refers to the modern city of Harar . The term Hararghe was used to refer solely to the modern city of Harar prior to the invasion of the Harar Emirate by the Abyssinians in 1887. The region consisted mostly of the territory of the Emirate of Harar annexed by Menelik II in 1887. Including Ethiopia's part of the Ogaden , Haraghe

36-752: A naturalized U.S. citizen . He settled in New York City , and received a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his studies of the Semitic languages in Ethiopia . He traveled throughout the country, recording endangered Ethiopian languages. For one language, Gafat , Leslau was able to locate only four speakers. It became extinct shortly thereafter. After teaching at the Asia Institute , the New School for Social Research , and for 4 years at Brandeis University , he joined

54-646: A yeshiva education. To avoid military service in the Polish army, he gave up his Polish citizenship (becoming a stateless person ) and emigrated to Vienna , where he would engage in Semitic studies at the University of Vienna until 1931. He then went to the Sorbonne to study under Marcel Cohen . His studies included most of the Semitic languages , including Hebrew , Aramaic , Akkadian , Soqotri and Ethiopic . Leslau

72-627: The Harari people of Ethiopia . Old Harari is a literary language of the city of Harar, a central hub of Islam in Horn of Africa. According to the 2007 Ethiopian census, it is spoken by 25,810 people. Harari is closely related to the Eastern Gurage languages , Zay , and Silt'e , all of whom are believed to be linked to the now extinct Semitic Harla language. Locals or natives of Harar refer to their language as Gēy Sinan or Gēy Ritma ' language of

90-529: The Somali Region of Ethiopia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Ethiopian history –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . barreeysaan abdi mikail Harari language Harari is an Ethiopian Semitic language spoken by

108-661: The Amharic pronunciation. The table below shows the Harari alphasyllabary with the Romanized & IPA consonants along the rows and the Romanized vowel markings along the columns. Wolf Leslau Wolf Leslau ( Yiddish : וולף לסלאו ; born November 14, 1906, in Krzepice , Vistula Land , Poland; died November 18, 2006, in Fullerton, California ) was a scholar of Semitic languages and one of

126-508: The City ' ( Gēy is the word for how Harari speakers refer to the city of Harar , whose name is an exonym ). According to Wolf Leslau , Sidama is the substratum language of Harari and influenced the vocabulary greatly. He identified unique Cushitic loanwords found only in Harari and deduced that it may have Cushitic roots. Harari was originally written with a version of the Arabic script, then

144-600: The Ethiopic script was adopted to write the language. Some Harari speakers in diaspora write their language with the Latin alphabet. Palatal Wolf Leslau discusses Harari–East Gurage phonology and grammar: The noun has two numbers, singular and plural. The affix -ač changes singulars into plurals: Nouns ending in a or i become plural without reduplicating this letter: /s/ alternates with /z/: Masculine nouns may be converted into feminines by three processes. The first changes

162-626: The existing 42 provinces of varying sizes. A comparison of the two maps in Margary Perham, The Government of Ethiopia shows that Hararghe was created by combining the Sultanate of Aussa , the lands of the Karanle, Ogaden, Issa, and Gadabursi with the 1935 provinces of Chercher and Harar . In 1960, the province south of the Shebelle River was made into its own province, Bale . With the adoption of

180-605: The faculty of University of California, Los Angeles in 1955. He was instrumental in establishing the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Near East Studies . Leslau specialized in previously unrecorded and unstudied Semitic languages of Ethiopia. His first trip to Ethiopia in 1946 was funded by a Guggenheim fellowship . In 1950, Leslau traveled to South Arabia and Yemen. There he made field recordings at gatherings of South Arabian Bedouins and Yemenite Jews . In 1951,

198-420: The foremost authorities on Semitic languages of Ethiopia . Leslau was born in Krzepice , a small town near Częstochowa , Poland . When he was a child his family was very poor, and after contracting tuberculosis he usually had to keep a thermometer with him to monitor his body temperature, although the reasons for this are unknown. He was orphaned by the age of 10, and was raised by his brother, and received

SECTION 10

#1732844464798

216-505: The new constitution in 1995, Hararghe was divided between the Oromia , Afar and Somali Regions , which was given a large part, and what remained was a tiny Harari . 8°N 43°E  /  8°N 43°E  / 8; 43 This article about a location in the Afar Region of Ethiopia is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location in

234-540: The recordings were issued by Folkways Records as Music of South Arabia in their "ethnic" series, FE-4221. The recordings, as well as Leslau's liner notes, are available for download from Smithsonian Folkways . In 1965 Leslau received the Haile Selassie Prize for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa from Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie . He held the position of Professor Emeritus at UCLA until his death at

252-472: The same way attached pronouns are affixed to verbs: The demonstrative pronouns are: The interrogative pronouns are the following: The following are the two auxiliary verbs: Past tense Present tense Imperative Prohibitive Past tense (Affirmative form) (Negative form) Present tense. (Affirmative form) (Negative form) Harari was originally written in an unmodified and later modified Arabic Script . The Ethiopic script

270-437: The terminal vowel into -it , or adds -it to the terminal consonant: Animals of different sexes have different names. and this forms the second process: The third and the most common way of expressing sex is by means of korma ' male or man ' and inistí ' woman, female ' , corresponding to English "he-" and "she-": The affixed pronouns or possessives attached to nouns are: Singular. Plural. In

288-628: Was arrested by the French police and sent to an internment camp in the Pyrenees where he spent the harsh winter of 1939-1940 with his wife and child. He was later moved to Camp des Milles , a concentration camp near Aix-en-Provence . However, with the assistance of an international aid group, he escaped with his family before the Nazis took over the camp in 1942. Escaping to the United States , he later became

306-551: Was bounded on west by Shewa , northwest by Wollo Province , northeast by French Somaliland and on the east by Somalia . Originally however Hararghe included the Sidamo , Bale and Arsi Province until Haile Selassie split the provinces. Hararghe was the historical homeland of the Harla people and often synonymous with the region of Adal . Hararghe was altered as a result of Proclamation 1943/1, which created twelve taklai ghizat s from

324-498: Was then adopted to write Harari. There is a Latin version of the script used by the Harari diaspora. Harari can be written in the unmodified Ethiopic script as most vowel differences can be disambiguated from context. The Harari adaptation of the Ethiopic script adds a long vowel version of the Ethiopic/Amharic vowels by adding a dot on top of the letter. In addition certain consonants are pronounced differently when compared to

#797202