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The Origin Of Amharic by Girma A. Demeke (Paperback, 2013)

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Origin of Amharic, Paperback by Demeke, Girma A., ISBN 1569023794, ISBN-13 9781569023792, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Examining the arguments for how this Ethiopian language developed.

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There are two main hypotheses on the origin of Amharic: it may be a descendent of a common Proto-Ethiosemitic language or it may have evolved as a Semitic-based pidgin, which became a creole and eventually developed into a full-fledged language. While the first hypothesis is commonly accepted in Semitic Studies, the second hypothesis - first proposed in the beginning of the 1980s - became popular very recently and has even entered Amharic textbooks. Girma clearly demonstrates that the pidgin hypothesis is blatantly implausible.