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Item ብኣምሓርኛ ፣ ትግርኛን ኦሮምኛን፣ ንዊኪፔድያ ኣብ ምብርካት ዘጋጥማ ብድሆታት ምርዳእ(2024) Nigatu, Hellina Hailu; Canny, John; Achame, Berhane; Chasins, Sarahንዊኪፔድያ ኣበርከቲ ዝኾኑ ሰባት ዝገጥሞም ብድሆታት ንምርዳእ፣ ብዙሕ መረዳእታ ኣብዘይብለን ቋንቋታት፣ ብመንፅር በዝሒ፣ ዓይነትን ዝምድናን፣ (1) ካብ መድረኻት ምይይጥ ዊኪፔድያ ሓበሬታ ዝተንተናሉ፣ (2)14 ተሳተፍቲ ብቋንቋታት ትግርኛ፣ ኦሮምኛ ወይ ከኣ ኣምሓርኛ ዓንቀፃት ክፅሕፉ ዝፈተኑሉ ብምርኣይ መፅናዕቲ ኣካይድና። ብመሰረት ውፅኢት እቲ መፅናዕትና፣ ንኹሉ ዝሓውስ ቴክኖሎጂታት ቋንቋ ንምስራሕ ለበዋታት ነቕርብ። ኣብዚ ፅሑፍ እዚ፣ ኣብ ታሕቲ ክርከብ ዝኽእል፣ ናብ ሕትመት ካብዝበቕዐ ናይ ውፀኢትና ጥሙር ሓሳብ ነቕርብ።Publication Understanding Challenges in Contributing to Wikipedia in Amharic, Tigrinya, and Afan Oromo.(2024) Nigatu, Hellina Hailu; Canny, John; Chasins, SarahOnline Knowledge Repositories (OKRs) like Wikipedia offer communities a way to share and preserve information about themselves and their ways of living. However, for communities with low-resourced languages—including most African communities—the quality and volume of content available are often inadequate. One reason for this lack of adequate content could be that many OKRs embody Western ways of knowledge preservation and sharing, requiring many low-resourced language communities to adapt to new interactions. To understand the challenges faced by low-resourced language contributors on the popular OKR Wikipedia, we conducted (1) a thematic analysis of Wikipedia forum discussions and (2) a contextual inquiry study with 14 novice contributors. We focused on three Ethiopian languages: Afan Oromo, Amharic, and Tigrinya. Our analysis revealed several recurring themes; for example, contributors struggle to find resources to corroborate their articles in low-resourced languages, and language technology support, like translation systems and spellcheck, result in several errors that waste contributors’ time. We hope our study will support designers in making online knowledge repositories accessible to low-resourced language speakers.Item AFAAN AMAARAA, AFAAN TIGRII, FI AFAAN OROMOO WIIKIIPIDIYAA GUMAACHUU KESSATTI QORMAATA JIRU HUBACHUU(2024) Canny, John ; Chasins, Sarah ; Nigatu, Hellina Hailu; Sheleme, AyantuQormaata gumaachitootni Wiikiipiidiyaa afaanota odeeffannoo baay’ee hin qabneen mudatan hubachuuf qorannoo gaggeessineen, qorannoo (1) marii waltajjii Wiikiipiidiyaa irraa ragaa xiinxallee (2) hirmaattonni 14 barruu Afaan Tigrii, Afaan oromo ykn Amaariffaan barreessuuf yaaluu isaanii ilaalle. Argannoo keenya irratti hundaa’uun teeknooloojiiwwan afaanii hunda hammate ijaaruuf yaada dizaayinii ni kennina. Barreeffama kana keessatti argannoowwan maxxansa keenya irraa argaman kanneen asitti argamuu danda’an gabaabsinee dhiyeessina.Item Factors In The Affrication Of The Ejective Alveolar Fricative In Tigrinya(2019-08-13) Moeng, Emily; Carter, WilliamEjective fricatives are typologically rare sounds, attributable to the fact that they present an articulatory dilemma with contrasting demands for their fricative and ejective components. Several articulatory coping mechanisms have been observed across languages (Maddieson 1997; 1998). In the case of Tigrinya, Shosted & Rose (2011) find that the ejective alveolar fricative, /s’/, is affricated more often than not (/s’/ produced as [ts’]), proposing affrication to be another possible coping mechanism. This study assesses two possible factors affecting the rate or degree of affrication in Tigrinya: 1) the vowel environment surrounding /s’/ and 2) the lexical frequency of words containing /s’/. While we find no effect of lexical frequency, we find a significant effect of vowel context, with the lowest rate of affrication occurring following [i] and preceding [u]. We propose that this finding suggests that this environment, naturally aids the production of ejective fricatives due to vowel coarticulation, as the decreasing supralaryngeal volume over the duration of the fricative counteracts the loss of air due to frication.Item Clitics Or Agreement Markers: A View From Tigrinya Clausal Possession And Modal Necessity(2021-10-19) Gebregziabher, KeffyalewThis paper discusses the connection between clausal possession and modal necessity in Tigrinya. One of the unique traits of the two constructions is that they involve the same verbal element ʔalləw-, which hosts an object marker that tracks what appears to be a subject. Using a number of diagnostics, I first demonstrate that the object marker is an agreement affix and that it should be amenable to the operation Agree. Then, using several pieces of morphosyntactic evidence, I argue that the mismatch (the object marker tracking what looks like a subject) arises due to the fact that the DP the object marker references is a “quirky” argument is forced to remerge higher to escape an intervention effect. Finally, I present a syntactic analysis for clausal possession and modal necessity, claiming that ʔalləw- is the spell-out of the appl head that relates two arguments in Tigrinya.