The Ezana Stone: Decoding Ethiopia’s Rosetta Stone
Long before the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, the Kingdom of Aksum produced the Ezana Stone, a trilingual monument inscribed in Ancient Greek, Sabaean, and Ge'ez. This article explores how…
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The Amharic ‘And’: A Verb’s Best Friend
In English, we connect actions with a simple 'and.' But in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, this conjunction is masterfully baked directly into the verb itself. This feature, common…
Parsing the Unparsable: The Dhaasanac Language
Journey to the Omo Valley to meet the Dhaasanac people of Ethiopia, whose language defies easy categorization. Instead of marking nouns for their role, Dhaasanac bundles subject and object markers…