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Ethiopia
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• Availability of SIL publications for Ethiopia
• The languages of Ethiopia

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Adverbials

• Will, Hans-Georg. 1993. "Adverbial clauses and topicalization in Meʼen."

Agriculture and food production

• Án faasˀathá sˀisˀíagú. 2005. (Berta)
• Sˀakˀá ashárdídá shaíné pˀarune-áre. 2005. (Berta)

AIDS and HIV

• Aɲi, edu oo ec ay biy. 2008. (Me’en)
• Arʃide roʃine jɔynɛn denɛ. 2008. (Me’en)
• De dɛʃi garsenɔ anen?. 2008. (Me’en)
• eids. 1994. (Konso)
• HIV eydise waysiw iichusho?. 2002. (Koorete)
• Kaman de ɔrɛksɛduɲ. 2008. (Me’en)
• Kucukucu kumɛ. 2008. (Me’en)
• Kunasa ge bukudi ɔtkiye. 2008. (Me’en)
• Mɛndiya aa iɗamanɛko aa ilaasi?. 2008. (Me’en)
• Mokac oo tomok k'enɛsɛn. 2008. (Me’en)
• Sidaamu afiinni qixxaawinoha HIV/EEDISI (AIDS) yinanni dhibbi mayimma, kulanno maxaafa. 2002. (Sidamo)

Arithmetic

• dadaba kagaya toyiy mada 3. 2008. (Suri)
• Dadawa kagaya toyuy madˀa 2. 2006. (Suri)
• Dadawa kagaya toyuy mad'a 3. 2004. (Suri)
• Dadawa kotoriya mad'añy: mad'a 2. 2004. (Suri)
• Dadawa kotoriya mapanye, mapa 1. 2003. (Mursi)
• Maths exercises, book II. 2005. (Konso)

Articulatory phonetics

• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. "Glottalization constraints and Ethiopian counter-evidence."

Bibliography

• Abbink, Jon and Peter Unseth. 1998. "Surmic bibliography: Language and culture."
• Unseth, Peter. 1989. "The production of a linguistic bibliography."
• Unseth, Peter. 1990. Linguistic bibliography of the non-Semitic languages of Ethiopia.

Bilingualism

• Kusia Shenkere, Dinote and others. 1994. "Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore), report part 1."
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Pilot survey of bilingualism in Yem."  

Biography

• Janko, Kebede Hordofa and Peter Unseth. 2003. "Aster Gannoo."
• Unseth, Peter. 1996. Review of: Reminiscences of my life, by Emmanuel Abraham.

Case

• Unseth, Peter. 1989. "An initial comparison and reconstruction of case suffixes in Surmic languages."

Causative voice

• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "An archaic Surmic causative prefix."
• Unseth, Peter. 1998. "Two old causative affixes in Surmic languages."

Cognition

• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1991. Translation and relevance: cognition and context.

Community development

• Unseth, Peter. 2003. "ALERT."

Comparative and historical studies

• Ahland, Colleen Anne. 2004. Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility.
• Ahland, Michael Bryan. 2004. Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing language.
• Arensen, Jonathan and others. 1997. "Interrogatives in Surmic languages and Greenberg’s universals."
• Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia) [part 1]."
• Korhonen, Elsa, Mirja Saksa, and Ronald J. Sim. 1986. "A dialect study of Kambaata-Hadiyya (Ethiopia), part 2: Appendices."
• Sim, Ronald J. 1988. "The diachronic derivation of the verb in Northern Highland East Cushitic."
• Unseth, Peter Edward. 2002. Bi-consonantal reduplication in Amharic and Ethio-Semitic.
• Unseth, Peter. 1986. "Word order shift in negative sentences of Surma languages."
• Unseth, Peter. 1987. Review of: Typology, relationship, and time, by Vitaly V. Shevroshkin and T. L. Markey.
• Unseth, Peter. 1989. "An initial comparison and reconstruction of case suffixes in Surmic languages."
• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "An archaic Surmic causative prefix."
• Unseth, Peter. 1998. "Two old causative affixes in Surmic languages."
• Unseth, Peter. 2003. "Surveying bi-consonantal reduplication in Semitic."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. "Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Why Bench’ (Ethiopia) has five level tones today."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. "Glottalization constraints and Ethiopian counter-evidence."

Computational linguistics

• Gardner, Simon. 1994. "A problem in boundary morphophonemics for computer analysis."

Consonants

• Unseth, Peter Edward. 2002. Bi-consonantal reduplication in Amharic and Ethio-Semitic.

Creole languages

• Unseth, Peter. 1987. Review of: Acts of identity: Creole-based approaches to language and ethnicity, by Robert B. Le Page and Andrée Tabouret-Keller.

Cross-cultural communication

• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "Fitting in with local assumptions about literacy: Some Ethiopian experiences."

Culture and folklore

• mehimachot yesiltʼe misaleyawi anegageroch. 2002. (Silt’e)

Dialect intelligibility

• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1980. "Intelligibility and interlingual comprehension among selected Gurage speech varieties."

Dictionaries and vocabularies

• Author unknown. 2007. Bertha-English-Amharic dictionary.
• Bryant, Mike and Bargola Olekibo, compilers. 1997. Surichen ko aranjacan ko golacan (Suri - English - Amharic dictionary).
• Gutt, Eeva H. M. and Hussein Mohammed, compilers. 1995. Yäsəltʼənä - Amarəna - ənglizəña kʼamus (əncʼər kutab) (Yäsəltʼiña - Amarəna - ənglizəña mäzgäba kʼalat (acʼər ətəm): Siltʼe - Amharic - English dictionary (shorter version)).
• Gutt, Eeva H. M., Hussein Mohammed and Ernst-August Gutt, compilers. 1997. Siltʼe - Amharic - English dictionary, (with concise grammar).
• Unseth, Peter. 1988. Review of: Amharic-English Dictionary, by Amsalu Aklilu, compiler.

Discourse analysis

• Breeze, Mary J. 1990. Hortatory discourse in Ephesians: An analysis of the information structure and the implications for understanding the epistle.
• Levinsohn, Stephen H. 2003. "Some observations on the storyline status of gerunds in Koorete (Omotic)."

Education

• Boothe, Ken and Roland Walker. 1997. "Mother tongue education in Ethiopia: From policy to implementation."
• Siebert, Ralph. 1995. "Recent developments regarding education policy and languages in the North Omo Administrative Region."

Ethnogeography

• Unseth, Peter. 2003. "Burree waaqa."

Ethnography

• Unseth, Peter and Jon Abbink. 1998. "Cross-ethnic clan identities among Surmic groups and their neighbours: The case of the Mela."
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. Review of: The Ethiopian Tewahedo church: an integrally African church, by Archbishop Yesehaq.
• Unseth, Peter. 1995. Review of: Meaza of Ethiopia, by Kevin O’Mahoney.
• Unseth, Peter. 2007. "Horn of Africa."
• Unseth, Peter. 2007. "Maǧaŋgir ethnography."

Ethnolinguistics

• Bliese, Loren F. 1981. A generative grammar of Afar.  
• Hordofa, Kebbede and Peter Unseth. 1985-86. "‘Bird talk’ in Oromo."
• Unseth, Peter. 2008. "Collecting, using, and enjoying proverbs."  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1986. "Communication breakdown or lèse-majesté: How feudoid subgroups of the Yemma (Janjero) talk to each other."

Folklore, myth and legend

• Adams, Bruce. 1972. "A Wolaamo fable: The editing of oral literature."

Functional literacy

• Rumicho, Edossa. 1989. "EECMY literacy program."

Grammar theories

• Sim, Ronald J. 1989. Predicate conjoining in Hadiyya: a head-driven PS grammar.

Grammatical descriptions

• Abebe, Alemayehu. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Mesketo language of Ethiopia."  
• Breeze, Mary J. 1990. "A sketch of the phonology and grammar of Gimira (Benchnon)."
• Bryant, Michael Grayson. 1999. Aspects of Tirmaga grammar.
• Leyew, Zelealem. 1995. "Kemant (Qimant): a language on the brink of extinction."
• Siebert, Ralph. 2007. "Nayi language."
• Sim, Ronald J. 1989. Predicate conjoining in Hadiyya: a head-driven PS grammar.
• Unseth, Peter. 2007. "Maǧaŋgir language."
• Unseth, Peter. 2007. "Murle language."
• Will, Hans-Georg. 1989. "Sketch of Meʼen grammar."
• Yilma, Aklilu. 1994. "A sketch of the Nayi grammar."

Health and hygiene

• damta harmissa (apayyota). 1994. (Konso)
• Fayyimmate agarooshshinna dhibbu gargarooshshi maxaafa. 2003. (Sidamo)
• kittipaateta. 1994. (Konso)
• nō kinyang hunde iheye gaochi dha. 2005. (Suri)
• Siima garafa biya kafe. 2003. (Koorete)

Intelligibility testing

• Ahland, Colleen Anne. 2004. Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility.

Interrogative

• Arensen, Jonathan and others. 1997. "Interrogatives in Surmic languages and Greenberg’s universals."

Kinship systems

• Unseth, Peter and Jon Abbink. 1998. "Cross-ethnic clan identities among Surmic groups and their neighbours: The case of the Mela."
• Unseth, Peter. 1998. "Notes on clan, kinship and marriage patterns among the Majangir."

Language change

• Ahland, Colleen Anne. 2004. Linguistic variation within Gumuz: a study of the relationship between historical change and intelligibility.

Language classification

• Tefera, Anbessa and Peter Unseth. 1989. "Toward the classification of Shabo (Mikeyir)."
• Unseth, Peter. 1984. Review of: Nilo-Saharan, by Thilo C. Schadeberg and M. Lionel Bender.
• Unseth, Peter. 1988. "The validity and unity of the ‘Southeast Surma’ language grouping."
• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "Disentangling the two languages called ‘Suri’."
• Wedekind, Charlotte and Klaus Wedekind. 1995. "A survey of Awngi."

Language death

• Ahland, Michael Bryan. 2004. Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing language.

Language distribution

• Unseth, Peter. 1985. "Gumuz: a dialect survey report."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Thoughts when drawing a map of tone languages."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1995. "A note on Amuru."
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Pilot survey of bilingualism in Yem."  

Language learning

• Lemudigir, Bargola and Daniel Bambu. 2002. dadaba kagaya surichen ko golachen ko aranjachen.

Language policy

• Boothe, Ken and Roland Walker. 1997. "Mother tongue education in Ethiopia: From policy to implementation."
• Gfeller, Elisabeth. 1999. Language equality: multilingual issues in education.
• Siebert, Ralph. 1995. "Recent developments regarding education policy and languages in the North Omo Administrative Region."
• Siebert, Ralph. 2002. "Recent developments regarding education policy and languages in the North Omo administrative region."  

Language surveys

• Abebe, Alemayehu. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Ometo dialect of Ethiopia, part II."  
• Brenzinger, Matthias. 1995. "The ‘Islanders’ of Lake Abaya and Lake Chʼamo: Harro, Ganjule, Gatsʼame and Bayso."
• Brenzinger, Matthias. 1999. "The "islanders" of Lake Abaya and Lake Chʼamo: Harro, Ganjule, Gatsʼame and Bayso."  
• Diehl, Achim and Hans-Georg Will. 2007. "Meˀen language."
• Dimmendaal, Gerrit. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on Tirma, Chai, Baale and Mursi."  
• Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 1994. "Second S. L. L. E. survey of the Zay language area."
• Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Zay language area."  
• Girard, Tim. 2002. "Lexico-phonostatistical analysis of Alemayehu Abebe’s Ometo word lists."  
• Girard, Tim. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of abortive Suri."  
• Girard, Tim. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Werizoid dialect chain."  
• Hailu, Berhamu, Sisay Dereje and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Khamir language of Ethiopia."  
• Hailu, Berhanu, Sisay Dereje and Klaus Wedekind. 1995. "Khamir - the people [ʼximra] and their language [ximʼt’aŋa]."
• Kusia Shenkere, Dinote and others. 1994. "Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore), report part 1."
• Leyew, Zalealem. 1994. "Argobba - the people and the language."
• Leyew, Zelealem and Ralph Siebert. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Argobba language of Ethiopia."  
• Leyew, Zelealem. 1994. "First report on a survey of the Shinasha and Agew dialects and languages."
• Leyew, Zelealem. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Kemant (Qimant) language of Ethiopia."  
• Siebert, Ralph and Lydia Hoeft. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Abbaya/Chamo area of Ethiopia part 1."  
• Siebert, Ralph and Michael Bryant. 2007. "Kwama language."
• Siebert, Ralph and Simon Caudwell. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Melo (Malo) and Mursi languages of Ethiopia."  
• Siebert, Ralph, Kati Siebert and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on languages of the Asosa - Begi - Komosha area part 1."  
• Siebert, Ralph, Klaus Wedekind and Charlotte Wedekind. 1994. "Third S. L. L. E. survey on languages of the Begi/Asosa area."
• Siebert, Ralph, Lydia Hoeft and Matthias Brenzinger. 1994. "Languages of the Abbaya/Chamo area - report part 1, with notes on Koorete."
• Siebert, Ralph. 1995. "A survey of the Male language."
• Siebert, Ralph. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Male language of Ethiopia."  
• Siebert, Ralph. 2002. "Recent developments regarding education policy and languages in the North Omo administrative region."  
• Siebert, Ralph. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Dime language of Ethiopia."  
• Sim, Ronald J. 1991. "Data for good decision making."
• Uusitalo, Mirjami. 2007. "Konso language."
• Wedekind, Charlotte and Klaus Wedekind. 1995. "A survey of Awngi."
• Wedekind, Charlotte and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Asosa - Begi - Komosha area: part II."  
• Wedekind, Charlotte, Klaus Wedekind and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Third S.L.L.E. survey on languages of the Begi/Asosa area."  
• Wedekind, Klaus and Charlotte Wedekind. 2002. "Initial SLLE survey of the Zway area."  
• Wedekind, Klaus and Charlotte Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey of the Awngi language of Ethiopia."  
• Wedekind, Klaus, editor. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada (Dullay), Diraasha (Gidole), Muusiye (Bussa) areas."  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1995. "A note on Amuru."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1995. "Conclusion of the S.L.L.E. survey."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) part II."  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Amuru area of Ethiopia."  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 2002. "Updating linguistic maps [for Ethiopia]."  
• Wedekind, Micha and Lemma Alga. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of Boro (Shinasha)."  
• Wedekind, Micha. 1995. "A survey of Boro (Shinasha)."
• Yilma, Aklilu and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Oromo sentence repetition test and its development."  
• Yilma, Aklilu and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic report on the survey of little-known languages of Ethiopia."  
• Yilma, Aklilu and Ralph Siebert. 1995. "Survey of Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi, part 1."
• Yilma, Aklilu and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia part 1."  
• Yilma, Aklilu, Ralph Siebert and Kati Siebert. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey of the Omotic languages Sheko and Yem."  
• Yilma, Aklilu. 1994. "A sketch of the Nayi grammar."
• Yilma, Aklilu. 1995. "Survey of little-known languages of Ethiopia."
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Fast linguistic assessment of multilingualism in Ethiopia (F.L.A.M.E.): a progress report."  
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Pilot survey of bilingualism in Yem."  
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Nayi language of Ethiopia."  
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Chara language of Ethiopia."  

Language use

• Siebert, Ralph. 1995. "A survey of the Dime language."

Linguistic theory

• Unseth, Peter. 1991. Review of: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 5, Anatoly Gromyko, editor.

Literacy

• Scholz, Hans-Jürgen. 1980. Handbuch zur Alphabetisierung.
• Unseth, Peter. 1986. "Evaluating the degree of literacy in use."

Literacy programs

• Unseth, Peter. 1997. "Fitting in with local assumptions about literacy: Some Ethiopian experiences."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1994. "Alphabetisierung and literalität in Athiopien."

Meeting reports

• Wedekind, Klaus. 1989. "Third International Conference on Functional Grammar, Amsterdam, June 20-24, 1988."

Morphology

• Abraha, John and Klaus Wedekind. 1998. Review of: Kunama, by Lionel M. Bender.
• Beachy, Marvin Dean. 2005. An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology.  

Morphophonemics

• Gebre-Tsadik, Abebe and others. 1985. The verb morphophonemics of five highland east Cushitic languages, including Burji.
• Sim, Margaret G. 1985. "Kambaata verb morphophonemics."
• Sim, Margaret G. 1988. "Palatalization and gemination in the Kambaata verb."
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. "Consonant sequences and morphophonemics in Majang."
• Wedekind, Charlotte. 1985. "Burji verb morphology and morphophonemics."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Gedeo (Derasa) verb morphology and morphophonemics."

Narrative discourse

• Payne, Doris L. 1992. "Towards a more adequate approach to ’focus’ phenomena (Review of ’Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies, by Klaus Wedekind)."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies.

Negation

• Unseth, Peter. 1986. "Word order shift in negative sentences of Surma languages."
• Unseth, Peter. 1994. "Verbal negation in Majang."

Nouns

• Unseth, Peter. 1988. "Majang nominal plurals, with comparative notes."

Numbers

• Dadawa kotoriya mad'añy. 2004. (Suri)

Orthography

• Scholz, Hans-Jürgen. 1980. Handbuch zur Alphabetisierung.
• Unseth, Peter and Carole Unseth. 1991. "Analyzing ambiguity in orthographies."

Particles

• Nicolle, Steve. 2000. "Markers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili."

Phonological descriptions

• Abraha, John and Klaus Wedekind. 1998. Review of: Kunama, by Lionel M. Bender.
• Beachy, Marvin Dean. 2005. An overview of Central Dizin phonology and morphology.  
• Breeze, Mary J. 1990. "A sketch of the phonology and grammar of Gimira (Benchnon)."
• Breeze, Mary. 1988. "Phonological features of Gimira and Dizi."
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1983. "Studies in the phonology of Silti."
• Tesfaye, Ashenafi and Klaus Wedekind. 1990. "Characteristics of Omotic tone: Shinasha (Borna)."
• Unseth, Peter. 1989. "Selected aspects of Gumuz phonology."
• Unseth, Peter. 2001. Review of: Sound mutations: the morphophonology of Chaha, by Degif Petros Banksira.  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1980. "Sidamo, Gedeo (Derasa), Burji: Phonological differences and likenesses."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. "Gimo-Jan or Ben-Yem-Om: Benč̡ - Yemsa phonemes, tones, and words."
• Yilma, Aklilu. 1995. "Some notes on the Chara language: Sound system and noun morphology."

Phonology

• Joswig, Andreas. 2006. "The status of the high central vowel in Awngi."
• Unseth, Peter. 1983. Review of: Sketch of syntagmatic phonology, by Victor M. Zhivov.

Phonotactics

• Sim, Ronald J. 1988. "Violations of the two-consonant constraint in Hadiyya."

Phrase books

• Dizinka Golinka Inggɘlizinka ed tamɘr mɛtsˀaf yasɘz = Dizinya Amarinyana Inglizinya K'wank'wa memariya tɘnɘsh mes'ihaf = Dizin Amharic and English language learning booklet. 2007. (Dizi)

Possession

• Unseth, Peter. 1991. "Possessive markers in Surmic languages."

Primers

• Afaan oromoo, dubbisii barreessi kitaaba 1 and 2. 2001. (Borana)
• Afaan oromoo, dubbisii barreessi kitaaba 1 and 2. 2001. (Oromo, Borana-Arsi-Guji)
• Ato Majangerongk (Language of Majang). 2006. (Majang)
• Basket fidala maasˀaaf. 2007. (Basketo)
• Dadaba bidelinya Suri, mada 1-8. 1998. (Suri)
• Dadaba bidelinyaa Suri, masa 1-3. 2007. (Suri)
• Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote maxaafa 1. 2002. (Sidamo)
• Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote maxaafa 2. 2003. (Sidamo)
• Yèmsanì àrunì tìchù. 2003. (Yemsa)

Pronouns

• Breeze, Mary J. 1986. "Personal pronouns in Gimira (Benchnon)."

Proverbs and maxims

• Unseth, Peter. 2008. "Collecting, using, and enjoying proverbs."  

Readers

• Abunafash. 2007. (Berta)
• Afaan Oromoo: seenaa, kitaaba 1 and 2. 1999. (Borana)
• Afaan Oromoo: seenaa, kitaaba 1 and 2. 1999. (Oromo, Borana-Arsi-Guji)
• Agorthé taláta. 2007. (Berta)
• Alílíañ, borid u anthamañ. 2007. (Berta)
• Amazíñ u borid. 2007. (Berta)
• Amilí u madañ; Añ hihíb. 2007. (Berta)
• Ashuní u at'éib. 2007. (Berta)
• Athoñorú máré borid; Begú ola húúhúlú. 2007. (Berta)
• Dadaba loga yukonaˀa zugu aka suri. 2002. (Suri)
• Dérwash. 2007. (Berta)
• Echi fayanka. 2006. (Koorete)
• Echi fayanka. 2006. (Koorete)
• England a ora bu gore. 2003. (Suri)
• Geedí íli gorosh; Maabá miilá áre. 2007. (Berta)
• Jhi'oy wodundo. 2003. (Koorete)
• Kamana arbaminshi, kunea kite. 2003. (Suri)
• Lo̱ga dhage̱ya erowu kali jhayno̱ (Stories children tell in the evening). 2004. (Suri)
• Loga käna kama. 2005. (Suri)
• Loga kedemesineneya. 2001. (Suri)
• Minzəbeerona, daazonatə, mereerona. 2007. (Borna)
• Náñ madi hilíñqi. 2007. (Berta)
• Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote dhagge: roso 1-20. 2002. (Sidamo)
• Sidaamu afii rosu xinti hanafote dhagge: roso 21-40. 2003. (Sidamo)
• Sidaamu afiinni qixxaabbinota addi addi dhagge amadino maxaafa. 2002. (Sidamo)
• torra karra ka karma. 1994. (Konso)
• Translation of Loga kedemesineneya (Stories for learning). 2001. (Suri)
• Waangone kˀóóha. 2007. (Borna)
• Washiye olabʼa jemeyk. 1992. (Majang)

Reduplication

• Unseth, Peter Edward. 2002. Bi-consonantal reduplication in Amharic and Ethio-Semitic.
• Unseth, Peter. 1986. "Reduplication in Majang."
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. "Reduplication in Majang."
• Unseth, Peter. 2003. "Surveying bi-consonantal reduplication in Semitic."

Relevance Theory

• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1988. "From translation to effective communication."
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1989. Translation and relevance.
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1990. "A theoretical account of translation — without a translation theory."
• Nicolle, Steve. 2000. "Markers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili."

Reviews

• Abraha, John and Klaus Wedekind. 1998. Review of: Kunama, by Lionel M. Bender.
• Unseth, Peter. 1983. Review of: Sketch of syntagmatic phonology, by Victor M. Zhivov.
• Unseth, Peter. 1984. Review of: Nilo-Saharan, by Thilo C. Schadeberg and M. Lionel Bender.
• Unseth, Peter. 1988. Review of: Amharic-English Dictionary, by Amsalu Aklilu, compiler.
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. Review of: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, vol. 5, Anatoly Gromyko, editor.
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. Review of: The Ethiopian Tewahedo church: an integrally African church, by Archbishop Yesehaq.
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. Review of: The native speaker is dead!, by Thomas Paikeday.
• Unseth, Peter. 1995. Review of: Meaza of Ethiopia, by Kevin O’Mahoney.
• Unseth, Peter. 2001. Review of: Sound mutations: the morphophonology of Chaha, by Degif Petros Banksira.  

Riddles

• Gíndaalía. 2005. (Berta)
• hiippa Honso. 1994. (Konso)
• Kirin or ong? Kˀecˀnewa min ayetch?. 2005. (Suri)

Science

• dadaba shwayuny. 2008. (Suri)
• Timirtiya bayny ke saynsi, mada 2. 2008. (Suri)

Semantics

• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1987. "What is the meaning we translate?."
• Nicolle, Steve. 2000. "Markers of general interpretive use in Amharic and Swahili."
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. Review of: The native speaker is dead!, by Thomas Paikeday.
• Unseth, Peter. 1998. "Semantic shift on a geographical term."

Sociolinguistics

• Ahland, Michael Bryan. 2004. Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing language.
• Dimmendaal, Gerrit. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on Tirma, Chai, Baale and Mursi."  
• Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 1994. "Second S. L. L. E. survey of the Zay language area."
• Hailu, Berhamu, Sisay Dereje and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Khamir language of Ethiopia."  
• Kusia [Shenkere], Dinote and Ralph Siebert. 1994. "Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbare (Irbore)."
• Leyew, Zelealem and Ralph Siebert. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Argobba language of Ethiopia."  
• Leyew, Zelealem. 1995. "Kemant (Qimant): a language on the brink of extinction."
• Leyew, Zelealem. 2002. "First report on a survey of the Shinasha and Agew dialects and languages."  
• Leyew, Zelealem. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Kemant (Qimant) language of Ethiopia."  
• Siebert, Ralph and Simon Caudwell. 1995. "On Melo (Malo) and Mursi."
• Siebert, Ralph and Simon Caudwell. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Melo (Malo) and Mursi languages of Ethiopia."  
• Siebert, Ralph, Kati Siebert and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on languages of the Asosa - Begi - Komosha area part 1."  
• Siebert, Ralph. 1994. "Argobba: Sociolinguistic information and a 320 item wordlist."
• Siebert, Ralph. 1995. "A survey of the Dime language."
• Siebert, Ralph. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Male language of Ethiopia."  
• Siebert, Ralph. 2002. "Recent developments regarding education policy and languages in the North Omo administrative region."  
• Siebert, Ralph. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Dime language of Ethiopia."  
• Wedekind, Charlotte and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Asosa - Begi - Komosha area: part II."  
• Wedekind, Charlotte, Klaus Wedekind and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Third S.L.L.E. survey on languages of the Begi/Asosa area."  
• Wedekind, Klaus and Charlotte Wedekind. 2002. "Initial SLLE survey of the Zway area."  
• Wedekind, Klaus and Charlotte Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey of the Awngi language of Ethiopia."  
• Wedekind, Klaus, editor. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada (Dullay), Diraasha (Gidole), Muusiye (Bussa) areas."  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore) part II."  
• Wedekind, Klaus. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Amuru area of Ethiopia."  
• Wedekind, Micha and Lemma Alga. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of Boro (Shinasha)."  
• Yilma, Aklilu and Klaus Wedekind. 2002. "Sociolinguistic report on the survey of little-known languages of Ethiopia."  
• Yilma, Aklilu and Ralph Siebert. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Chara, Dime, Melo and Nayi languages of Ethiopia part 1."  
• Yilma, Aklilu, Ralph Siebert and Kati Siebert. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey of the Omotic languages Sheko and Yem."  
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Fast linguistic assessment of multilingualism in Ethiopia (F.L.A.M.E.): a progress report."  
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Sociolinguistic survey report on the Chara language of Ethiopia."  

Stress

• Wedekind, Anne and Klaus. 1994. "Amharic stress (beat) rules of linguists, poets and singers. Which beat rules beat which?."

Switch reference

• Perrett, Denise L. 1993. The switch-reference phenomena in Hadiyya: a labelled deductive system perspective.

Syntagmatic analysis

• Unseth, Peter. 1983. Review of: Sketch of syntagmatic phonology, by Victor M. Zhivov.

Syntax

• Unseth, Peter. 1989. "Sketch of Majang syntax."

Tense

• Will, Hans-Georg. 1998. "The Meʼen verb system: Does Meʼen have tenses?."

Tone

• Tesfaye, Ashenafi and Klaus Wedekind. 1990. "Characteristics of Omotic tone: Shinasha (Borna)."
• Wedekind, Klaus and Ashenafi Tesfaye. 1994. "Aspects of Omotic tonogenesis: Shinasha."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1983. "A six-tone language in Ethiopia: Tonal analysis of Benč4⁰ non4⁰ (Gimira)."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Thoughts when drawing a map of tone languages."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Why Bench’ (Ethiopia) has five level tones today."

Transformational grammar

• Bliese, Loren F. 1981. A generative grammar of Afar.  

Transition primers

• Ifiin if barsiis. 2004. (Borana)
• Ifiin if barsiis. 2004. (Oromo, Borana-Arsi-Guji)
• Kolnet dapa huseynu qale ala patu. 2007. (Dirasha)
• Koshok mutken dʼoku nank. 1991. (Majang)
• upna tamaareta dapna apiitinnoppa alle paten!. 1993. (Konso)
• Ye koorete fidel ataqaaqam zadee. 1997. (Koorete)

Translation

• Breeze, Mary J. 1990. Hortatory discourse in Ephesians: An analysis of the information structure and the implications for understanding the epistle.
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1987. "What is the meaning we translate?."
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1988. "From translation to effective communication."
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1989. Translation and relevance.
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1990. "A theoretical account of translation — without a translation theory."
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1991. Translation and relevance: cognition and context.
• Sim, Ronald J. and E. Korhonen. 1984. "Frequency of verbs: Is our translation natural?."
• Unseth, Peter. 2003. "Bible translation into modern Ethiopian languages."
• Wedekind, Charlotte. 1988. "The consultant as counselor."

Typology

• Payne, Doris L. 1992. "Towards a more adequate approach to ’focus’ phenomena (Review of ’Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies, by Klaus Wedekind)."
• Unseth, Peter. 1987. "A typological anomaly in some Surma languages."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. Generating narratives: interrelations of knowledge, text variants, and Cushitic focus strategies.

Verb morphology

• Gebre-Tsadik, Abebe. 1985. "An overview of the morphological structure of Sidamo verbs."
• Gutt, Ernst-August. 1983. A multi-tiered approach to Siltʼi verb morphology.
• Sim, Ronald J. 1985. "The morphological structure of some main verb forms in Hadiyya."
• Wedekind, Charlotte. 1985. "Burji verb morphology and morphophonemics."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1985. "Gedeo (Derasa) verb morphology and morphophonemics."

Verbs

• Sim, Ronald J. 1988. "The diachronic derivation of the verb in Northern Highland East Cushitic."
• Sim, Ronald J. and E. Korhonen. 1984. "Frequency of verbs: Is our translation natural?."
• Wedekind, Klaus. 1992. "Which form predicts the others best? Variations on the Amharic verb "theme"."

Vowels

• Wedekind, Klaus. 1989. "Status and dynamics of Ethiopian vowel systems."

Word lists

• Abebe, Alemayehu. 2002. "Ometo dialect pilot survey report."  
• Alga, Lemma and Micha Wedekind. 1995. "Boro wordlists."
• Girard, Tim. 2002. "Lexico-phonostatistical analysis of Alemayehu Abebe’s Ometo word lists."  
• Kusia [Shenkere], Dinote and Ralph Siebert. 1994. "Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbare (Irbore)."
• Leyew, Zelealem. 2002. "First report on a survey of the Shinasha and Agew dialects and languages."  
• Lucassen, Deborah and Marco Last. 2002. "A Chai word list."  
• Siebert, Ralph and Simon Caudwell. 1995. "On Melo (Malo) and Mursi."
• Siebert, Ralph, Lydia Hoeft and Matthias Brenzinger. 1994. "Languages of the Abbaya/Chamo area - report part 1, with notes on Koorete."
• Siebert, Ralph. 1994. "Argobba: Sociolinguistic information and a 320 item wordlist."

Word order

• Unseth, Peter. 1986. "Word order shift in negative sentences of Surma languages."

Word structure

• Wedekind, Klaus. 1990. "Gimo-Jan or Ben-Yem-Om: Benč̡ - Yemsa phonemes, tones, and words."

Workbooks

• Loga kena kamma. 2008. (Suri)