Story-telling by Abeeto Demanbaabo ADE2011-12-28_001-005

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natural language processing

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Abeeto Demanbaabo and an unknown second speaker tells five pieces of oral literature, the first two and the last file by the unknown speaker seem to present riddles and their solutions. The third and the fourth file, recorded from Abeeto Demanbaabo, seem to be fragments of stories. The name of the speaker was not recorded, as it spoke on an unplanned recording. He is seen on HPIM5035.jpg on the left, together with Abeeto Demanbaabo. Yvonne Treis is a linguist and works on Ethiopian languages at CNRS in France.

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