37.555, FYI: Announcing Arabic Words of Ethiopic Origin (Tigrinya)

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Subject: 37.555, FYI: Announcing Arabic Words of Ethiopic Origin (Tigrinya)

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Date: 09-Feb-2026
From: Kalmasoft [kalmasoft at gmail.com]
Subject: Announcing Arabic Words of Ethiopic Origin (Tigrinya)


There are common words and linguistic similarities between languages
spoken in Ethiopia and the Arabic varieties used in the Middle East
and North Africa primarily due to shared "Semitic" linguistic roots,
geographical proximity, and historical interactions. Amharic and
Tigrinya are the major languages in the Ethiopian and Eritrean
highlands, they share many cognates (words with a common origin) and
similar grammatical structures.
We at Kalmasoft have spent the last five years extracting all the
shared cognates in the many "Semitic" languages, publicly available
while work still in progress through the following link.
https://www.kalmasoft.com/KLEX/dbtirara.htm
Tigrinya, in particular, has a significant amount of the shared
vocabulary due to it being the closest language to Arabic in terms of
phonological and semantic features while Amharic, on the other hand,
proved to have much in common in all syntactic aspects.
Both have a clear and evident contribution to the classic and modern
Arabic including different subtle grammatical tools and classes
largely attributed to Arabic due to insufficient researches that takes
into account the existence of such relationships.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): Amharic (amh)
                     Tigrinya (tir)

Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic



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