Story of the rock hyrax told by Dasto Maammo DM2011-12-28_001-003

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natural language processing

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dataset

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Das

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Dasto Maammo tells the story of the rock hyrax (zugga) and then provides some riddles (k'anasha) in file 003 and file 004. Dasto Maammo is a potter living in Gazda who plays the lyre and the woysa-flute. He is K'oyaaso Maammo's brother. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France.

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Languages

Amharic Basketo

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