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Afro Asiatic Languages; *Amharic; *Cultural
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Background; Instructional Materials; Language
Languages;
Instruction; *Reading Materials; Semitic
Sociocultural Patterns; Student Developed Materials;
Uncomaoily
Teacher Developed Materials; *Textbooks;
Taught Languages; Vocabulary
*Ethiopia; NDEA Title VI
IDENTIFIERS
ABSTRACT
This reader is intended to provide material for the
introduce the
intermediate-level student of Amharic as well as to
Ethiopia. Tie 39 texts
student to the cultural and social life of
different student at Haile Selassie I
were each-prepared by a
of language
University, thus providing the reader with a variety
their English translations,
styles. The Amharic texts are followed by
rhich retain
which are as close as possible to the original, and
completes the
Amharic technical terms. An Amharic-English glossary
volume.
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Final Report
Contract No. OEC-0-71-2395 (823)
INTERMEDIATE AMHARIC CULTURAL READER
Wolf Leslau
University of California
Los Angeles, California
October 1973
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INTERDIATE AXHARIO CULTURAL READER
WOLF LESLAU
INTRODUCTION
There is at present no Amharic Reader available to students
who have completed the study of Amharic grammar and are in the
The Intermediate
intermediary stage of the study of Amharic.
At the
is intended to fill this gap.
Amharic Cultural Reader
with texts that -de-
same time, the Reader pro'ides the student
scribe the material culture as well as the social institutions
of Ethiopia, thereby introducing him to the cultural life of
the country.
The texts were prepared under my direction by students of
text by another student.
the Haile Selassie I university, each
I adopted thiS procedure, rather than having all the texts
written by the same writer, in order to provide the student
of Amharic with a variety of styles,
The English translation is as close as possible to the
Amharic oriOnal. Amharic technical terms are retained in the
,English text, and the meaning of these terms is given in the
vocabulary.
The vocaou-
The notes refer to the English translation.
lary contains all the words of the Amharic text.
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4-5
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8-9
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10-12
13-13a
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14-15
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18-21
22-24
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25-26
28
29-30
31-33
34-36
37-39
40-41
42-44
45-46
47-48
49-51
52-54
55-60
61-62
63-65
66-67
68-69
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76-77
78-81
82-84
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TRANSLATIONS
104-106
Addis Ababa
107-109
The city of Gondar
110-112
Harar
113-115
Nercato
116-120
Country market
121-123
Christening
124-126
Naming
126-130
Wedding
131-134a
Burial ceremony
Food anddrink
135-138
House construction in Amhara country
139-141
142-144
The manner of wearing the 5iimma
'145-147
tiahb:.dr
148-150
Credit. society.
151-155
Burial society
156-159
Communal labor
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160-161
Communal inquest
162-165
Fukkara
166-168
PrieSt
169-171
DHbtHr-a
172-175
Nonkhood
176-179
Clerical education
180-186
Divination
187-189
-Fasting
190-193
Christmas
194 -196
Epiphany
197-199
Easter
200-203
NEscial
204-207
St. John's Day
208-210
c-rchants
211-215
Artisans
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216-219
ninstrel
220-223
the daily duties of an Amhara farmer
224-229
Lcadholding -man.; the Amharas
230-232
What is the daily work of an Ethiopian woman?
233-237
Iginctions of an elder in society
238-241
A person of breeding and '-r-,00d upbringing
Just what is an Ethiopian girl of good character?
242it245
246-249
Beauty
250-253
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254-343
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