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- W2508692936 abstract "Blin 2 is a Central Cushitic language spoken by an estimated 90,000 in Eritrea, concentrated in the ‘Anseba region around Keren. Blin speakers comprise roughly 2% of the Eritrean population, and Blin is one of nine national languages in Eritrea. Most speakers are bilingual in the Semitic languages Tigrinya or Tigre, and many know Amharic, Arabic, and/or English as well. Abbebe (2001) is an excellent assessment of Blin language vitality and sociolinguistics. The language policy of the Eritrean government is to encourage mother-tongue education for native speakers of each of its nine ethnolinguistic groups through primary school (Chefena, Kroon and Walters 1999). When this was implemented for the Blin in 1997, the government provided Blin curricular materials in the language using a new Roman-based alphabet. This overturned a 110-year tradition of writing Blin in Ethiopic script. This paper will focus on the history of writing in Blin, and examine the linguistic and sociolinguistic factors of each writing system. For more on language planning in Blin in general, see Fallon (2006). Before proceeding, I will adopt the following definitions from Daniels (2001). An alphabet is a writing system “in which each character stands for a consonant or a vowel” (44). A syllabary is a system “in which each character stands for a syllable” (43), in contrast to the system used in Ethiopian Semitic languages, an abugida, “in which each character stands for a consonant accompanied by a particular vowel, usually /a/, and other vowels (or no vowel) are indicated by consistent additions to the consonant symbols” (44). An example of the first two characters in the Blin abugida are given in (1), in which each order (or vowel peak of the syllable) is listed across, and each combining consonant is listed in a column. The sixth order is ambiguous between a coda consonant and onset plus / /." @default.
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- W2508692936 title "Blin Orthography: A History and anAssessment" @default.
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