105 Reflection #10

[Lidia Amanuel]

If I could conduct a linguistic study of Ge’ez I would study the history of the different manuscripts and the efforts for the preservation of the language. I find it really inspiring to read on and hear about all the good work that is being done and can be done to make sure this language is preserved. Language preservation in general is a very altruistic cause that just moves my heart. In order to study this, I definitely would search in to the history of semitic languages; their morphological and lexical patterns as well as the political boundaries that tie different languages together (for example the phonological and typographical similarities). I would start broad with semitic languages in general to get a good background and then use current scholars of Ge’ez to go into the specifics. I am not sure how many peer reviewed journal articles and books there are on this topic at large that specifically focus on the Ge’ez language. I think there would be more sources in Amharic than in English or any other Western language.