Elleni Sisay Temesgen

Cognate Detection for Historical Language Reconstruction of Proto-Sabean Languages: the Case of Ge’ez, Tigrinya, and Amharic

As languages evolve, we risk losing ancestral languages. In this paper, we explore Historical Language Reconstruction (HLR) for Proto-Sabean languages, starting with the identification of cognates–sets of words in different related languages that are derived from the same ancestral language. We (1)…