Sebat Bet Gurage

Resources

Computational Resources

• Open Source Keyboard Layout

Contains an open source Keyboard layout of Gurage with a Mit license

Grammatical descriptions

• Orthography

Contains full orthography of Gurage Chaha; sorted by phonetic pronunciation

• General Morphology

Contains a study and overview over Chaha morphology, covering verbal stems (ie. lexical verb types, verb roots), derivational verbal prefixes, affixes, and small bits of nominal/adjectival morphology

• Morphophonology

Touches on Phonemes, Syllables, Geminate Devoicing and Degemination, Affricates, Sonorants, and Consonants

• Phonology and Grammar

Contains a full phonetic chart and information regarding nasalization, stress, labialization, palatalization, clauses, phrases, order, time, and aspect

Scientific Works

• Epenthesis Positioning and Syllable Contact

Argues that Chaha is different from other Semitic languages when it comes to Epenthesis. Also claims that it often violates syllable contact

• Reduplicative Identity

Examines "a process of continuant dissimilation that derives [k] from /x/ in Chaha"[1]

Corpus

• Bible
• Proverbs
• Corpus Repository Link