Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia/Resources

Useful resources for creating and adding to articles. Resources may be listed in multiple sections (including General as well as a specific category) if they are particularly helpful and specific (e.g. Encyclopaedia Aethiopica).

Ethiopian calendar date -> Gregorian (for all years). Note, it doesn't seem to be accurate for earlier dates (before 18th or 17th c.). 

General
(none of the encyclopedias includes information on topics after 1974)
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003.
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005.
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: Ha-?. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007. (in prod.)
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: ?-Z. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009. (in prod.)

Particularly good sources

 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History from Ancient Times to The End of the 18th Century Asmara: Red Sea Press, Inc., 1997.
 * Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967.
 * Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
 * Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.
 * Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982.
 * Sergew Hable Selassie. Ancient and medieval Ethiopian history to 1270. Addis Ababa: [Printed by United Printers], 1972.
 * Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991. ' (one small chapter, but substantial for this subject) Online with page numbers for easy citing
 * Paul B. Henze, Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia.New York: Palgrave, 2000.
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Haile Sellasie I University, June 1969. (conference in 1966)''
 * See also proceedings of other conferences.

Hominids

 * Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.

Archaeological

 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Annales d'Éthiopie: Tome Septième et Tome Huitième. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Institute of Archeology, 1967 and 1970. (in French - primarily deals with Archaeology)

Pre-Aksumite

 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09. (see D'mt, Ag'azi, Habašat, among others)
 * Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991. ' (one small chapter, but substantial for this subject) Online with page numbers for easy citing'
 * Sergew Hable Selassie. Ancient and medieval Ethiopian history to 1270. Addis Ababa: [Printed by United Printers], 1972.
 * Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. (very little, but useful: see "Introduction")
 * Annales d'Éthiopie: Tome Septième et Tome Huitième. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Institute of Archeology, 1967 and 1970. (in French - mainly archaeological, but has relevant information)
 * See also other volumes (e.g. 1-6).

Aksumite

 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09. (esp. very long article on Aksum [good generalizations])
 * Stuart Munro-Hay, Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity. Edinburgh: University Press, 1991. '(foremost [arguable] work on subject) Online with page numbers for easy citing'
 * Yuri M. Kobishchanov, Axum. Joseph W. Michels, editor; Lorraine T. Kapitanoff, translator. University Park, Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania, 1979.
 * Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (one full chronicle of Ezana)
 * Sergew Hable Selassie. Ancient and medieval Ethiopian history to 1270. Addis Ababa: [Printed by United Printers], 1972. '''(an essential source for the period)
 * Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. (mainly very late Aksumite period [i.e. its decline] & early Zagwe)
 * Annales d'Éthiopie: Tome Septième et Tome Huitième. Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Institute of Archeology, 1967 and 1970. (in French - more focused on pre-Aksumite era)

Solomonic (1270-1527)

 * Taddesse Tamrat. Church and State in Ethiopia: 1270 - 1527. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972. (foremost work on time period)
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Amde Seyon, Zara Ya'qob, Be'ida Maryam, and Lebna Dengel)
 * Girma Beshah and Merid Wolde Aregay, The Question of the Union of the Churches in Luso-Ethiopian Relations (1500-1632). Lisbon: Junta de Investigaçǒes do Ultramar and Centro de Estudes Históricos Ultramarinos, 1964. (focuses on the Church, as the title implies)
 * Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
 * Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (detailed for specific towns as title implies)

Ahmed Gragn

 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Lebna Dengel & Galawdewos)
 * Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst. Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003. (First complete English translation of this primary source on Ahmad's Gragn invasion of Ethiopia)
 * Girma Beshah and Merid Wolde Aregay, The Question of the Union of the Churches in Luso-Ethiopian Relations (1500-1632). Lisbon: Junta de Investigaçǒes do Ultramar and Centro de Estudes Históricos Ultramarinos, 1964.
 * Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
 * Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (discusses Harrar & effects of invasion on towns)

Gonderine Era

 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. '''(Susenyos, Yohannes I, Iyasu I, Bakaffa, and Iyasu II)'
 * Girma Beshah and Merid Wolde Aregay, The Question of the Union of the Churches in Luso-Ethiopian Relations (1500-1632). Lisbon: Junta de Investigaçǒes do Ultramar and Centro de Estudes Históricos Ultramarinos, 1964.
 * Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia and the Red Sea. Great Britain: Frank Cass and Co. ltd., 1980.
 * Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (esp. Gonder city, and various other towns)

Zemene Mesafint

 * Abir, Mordechai. Ethiopia: the era of the princes: The challenge of Islam and the re-unification of the Christian empire, 1769-1855. London: Longmans, 1968.
 * Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 1790. Text at Wikisource (Important primary historical source.)
 * Crummy, Donald, ''Priests and Politicians: Protestant and Catholic Missions in Orthodox Ethiopia (1830-1868). Hollywood: Tsehai, 2007. (Reprint of the Oxford Press edition of 1972, with a brief preface by the author.)
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Iyoas I, and "The Era of the Masafint or Princes (1750? - 1855)
 * Pankhurst, Richard. History of Ethiopian Towns. Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1982. (early 19th c. history of towns - Gonder, Aksum, Adwa, etc.)
 * Rubenson, Sven, King of Kings: Tewodoros of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa: Haile Selassie I University, 1966. (A short book, almost a pamphlet, but the only biography of this important figure in English.)
 * Rubenson, Sven, The Survival of Ethiopian Independence. Hollywood: Tsehai, 1991. (History of Ethiopian contacts with Europe over the 19th century.)

Early Modern Era (to 1974)

 * Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia: 1855-1991, second edition. Oxford: James Currey, 2001. (First edition stops with 1974. Note: Bahru Zewde lives in Ethiopia, & is understandably circumspect about recent history.)
 * Bahru Zewde, Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia: The Reformist Intellectuals of the Early Twentieth Century. Oxford: James Currey, 2002.
 * Ehrlich, Haggai, Ras Alula and the Scramble for Africa. Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1996. (More about the era of Ras Alula than about the man himself.)
 * Gebru Tareke, Ethiopia: Power and Protest; Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century. Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1996.
 * Gebru Tareke, The Ethiopian Revolution: War in the Horn of Africa. New Haven: Yale University, 2009. (General discussion of the dynamics of the waging of the Ethiopian Civil War, 1978-1991, focusing on five battles or conflicts: The Ogaden War with Somalia, the Battle of Nafka, the Battle of Af Abet, the Battle of Shire, and the Battle of Massawa.)
 * Keller, Edmond J., Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988. (Good coverage of background, but effectively ends at 1978/1980.)
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09. (Basically only up to 1974)
 * Marcus, Harold, Haile Selassie I: The Formative Years, 1892-1936. Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1996. (First volume in a projected series on Haile Selassie, no further published.)
 * Marcus, Harold, The Life and Times of Menelik II, Ethiopia 1844-1913. Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1995.
 * Pankhurst, Richard K.P. The Ethiopian Royal Chronicles. East Africa:Oxford University Press, 1967. (Tewodros II, Yohannes IV, and Menelik II [for Shewa & Emperor-ship])

Current Issues

 * Marcus, Harold G. Editor. Hudson, Grover. Associate Editor. New Trends in Ethiopian Studies:Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Michigan State University 5-10 September 1994: Volume II: Social Sciences''. NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 1994.

Linguistic
General:
 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.

SIL:http://www.sil.org/silesr/indexes/country.html (see entry under #Ethiopia)

All others below are from there respective pages (for now), with the exception of those that are separated from the main list by a spacer.

Afar language

 * Bliese, Loren F. (1976) 'Afar', in Bender, Lionel M. (ed.) The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia. Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University, 133–164.
 * Bliese, Loren F. (1981) A generative grammar of Afar (Summer Institute of Linguistics publications in linguistics vol. 65). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics / Arlington, Texas: University of Texas at Arlington.
 * Colby, J.G. (1970) 'Notes on the northern dialect of the 'Afar language', Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 8, 1, 1–8.
 * Morin, Didier (1997) Poésie traditionnelle des Afars (Langues et cultures africaines, 21 / SELAF vol. 363). Paris/Louvain: Peeters.
 * Voigt, Rainer M. (1975) 'Bibliographie des Saho-Afar', Africana Marburgensia, vol. 8, 53–63.

Amharic

 * Abraham, Roy Clive (1968). The Principles of Amharic. Occasional Publication / Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. [rewritten version of 'A modern grammar of spoken Amharic', 1941]
 * Amsalu Aklilu (1973) English-Amharic dictionary. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-72264-7
 * Amsalu Aklilu & Demissie Manahlot (1990) T'iru ye'Amarinnya Dirset 'Indet Yale New! (An Amharic grammar, in Amharic)
 * Bennet, M.E. (1978) Stratificational Approaches to Amharic Phonology. PhD thesis, Ann Arbor: Michigan State University.
 * Cohen, Marcel (1936) Traité de langue amharique. Paris. Characteristics of Amharic
 * Dawkins, C. H. (¹1960, ²1969) The Fundamentals of Amharic. Addis Ababa.
 * Kane, Thomas L. (1990) Amharic-English Dictionary. (2 vols.) Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-02871-8
 * Kapeliuk, Olga (1988) Nominalization in Amharic. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden. ISBN 3515045120
 * Kapeliuk, Olga (1994) Syntax of the noun in Amharic. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447034068.
 * Leslau, Wolf (1976) Concise Amharic Dictionary. (Reissue edition: 1996) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20501-4
 * Leslau, Wolf (1995) Reference Grammar of Amharic. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. ISBN 3-447-03372-X
 * Ludolf, Hiob (1698) Grammatica Linguæ Amharicæ. Frankfort.
 * Praetorius, Franz (1879) Die amharische Sprache. Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses.

Argobba

 * Leslau, Wolf (1997) Ethiopic Documents: Argobba. Grammar and dictionary Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447039558.
 * Zelealem Leyew and Ralph Siebert (1994) Survey on Least Known Languages of Ethiopia - Argobba. S.L.L.E. Linguistic Reports Addis Ababa: S.I.L./Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.

Link to SIL: http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/026/

Beja language
(some speakers in Ethiopia - esp. around Humera area)
 * A Beja grammar (in Arabic)

Bussa language

 * Gurmu, Alemayehu [2005] 'Some Notes on Sociolinguistic Aspects of Bussa' (unpublished paper presented at International Conference on Endangered Ethiopian Languages, Addis Ababa 27-30 April 2005)
 * Wedekind, Klaus (ed.) (2002) 'Sociolinguistic survey report of the languages of the Gawwada (Dullay), Diraasha (Gidole), Muusiye (Bussa) areas.' SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2002-065.

Gafat language

 * Johann Christoph Adelung (1812), Mithridates, oder allgemeine Sprachkunde. Berlin. [vol. 3, p. 124-125: the same page from the Gafat text of the Song of Songs as in Bruce 1804 below].
 * Charles Tilstone Beke (1846), "On the languages and dialects of Abyssinia and the countries to the south", in: Proceedings of the Philological Society 2 (London), pp. 89-107.
 * James Bruce (1804), Travels to discover the source of the Nile in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, 1773. 2nd ed. Edinburgh. [vol. 2, pp. 491-499: "Vocabulary of the Amharic, Falashan, Gafat, Agow and Tcheretch Agow languages"; vol. 7, plate III: a page from the Gafat text of the Song of Songs].
 * Wolf Leslau (1944), "The position of Gafat in Ethiopic", in: Language 20, pp. 56-65.
 * Wolf Leslau (1945), Gafat Documents: Records of a South-Ethiopic language. American Oriental series, no. 28. New Haven.
 * Wolf Leslau (1956), Etudes descriptive et comparative du gafat (éthiopien méridional). Paris: C. Klincksieck.
 * Hiob Ludolf, Historia Aethiopica. Francofurti ad Moenum. [there are 3 sentences in Gafat with Latin translation in chapter 10, §60].
 * Franz Praetorius (1879), Die amharische Sprache. Halle. pp. 13-14.


 * Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005 (See article on Gafat language and history, contains a lot of information - much more than I assumed existed).

Inor language

 * Berhanu Chamora and Hetzron, R. (2000). Inor. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3895869775
 * Hetzron, R. (1977). The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
 * Leslau, W. (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447020415
 * Leslau, W. (1983). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Part V : Chaha - Ennemor. Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 16. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3515039651

Sebat Bet Gurage

 * Banksira, D. P. (2000). Sound Mutations: the Morphophonology of Chaha. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN 9027225648.
 * Cohen, Marcel (1931). Études d'éthiopien méridional. Société Asiatique, Collection d'ouvrages orientaux. Paris: Geuthner.
 * Goldenberg, G. (1974). "L'étude du gouragué et la comparaison chamito-sémitique", in: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma - Problemi attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, Quaderno N. 191 II, pp. 235-249 [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics: Selected Writings by Gideon Goldenberg, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press 1998, pp. 463-477].
 * Goldenberg, G. (1977). "The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia and Their Classification", in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40, pp. 461-507 [=Selected Writings, pp. 286-332].
 * Goldenberg, G. (1987). "Linguistic Interest in Gurage and the Gurage Etymological Dictionary". Review article of W. Leslau, Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (see below). in: Annali, Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli 47, pp. 75-98 [=Selected Writings, pp. 439-462].
 * Hetzron, Robert (1972). Ethiopian Semitic: studies in classification. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 071901123X.
 * Hetzron, R. (1977). The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
 * Hudson, G. (ed.) (1996). Essays on Gurage Language and Culture. Dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447038306.
 * Leslau, W. (1950). Ethiopic Documents: Gurage. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 14. New York: The Viking Fund.
 * Leslau, W. (1965). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Berkeley: University of California Press.
 * Leslau, W. (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447020415
 * Leslau, W. (1981). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Part IV : Muher. Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 11. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3515036571.
 * Leslau, W. (1983). Ethiopians Speak: Studies in Cultural Background. Part V : Chaha - Ennemor. Äthiopistische Forschungen, Band 16. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 3515039651
 * Leslau, W. (1992). Gurage Studies: Collected Articles. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447031891.
 * Polotsky, H.J. (1938). "Études de grammaire gouragué", in: Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 39, pp. 137-175 [=Collected Papers by H.J. Polotsky, Jerusalem: The Magnes Press 1971, pp. 477-515].
 * Polotsky, H.J. (1939). "L labialisé en gouragué mouher", in: GLECS 3, pp. 66-68 [=Collected Papers, pp. 516-518].
 * Polotsky, H.J. (1951). Notes on Gurage grammar. Notes and Studies published by the Israel Oriental Society, No. 2 [=Collected Papers, pp. 519-573].
 * Shack, W.A. and Habte-Mariam Marcos (1974). Gods and heroes, Oral Traditions of the Gurage of Ethiopia. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 019815142X.

Silt'e

 * Cohen, Marcel (1931). Études d'éthiopien méridional. Société Asiatique, Collection d'ouvrages orientaux. Paris: Geuthner.
 * Gutt, E.H.M. & Hussein Mohammed (1997). Silt'e - Amharic - English dictionary (with a concise grammar by E-A Gutt). Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University Press.
 * Gutt, E-A. (1983). Studies in the phonology of Silti. Journal of Ethiopian Studies 16, pp. 37-73.
 * Leslau, W. (1979). Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 3447020415

Soddo
'The use of idem'' below is a bit confusing. Can someone clear that up?'''


 * Gustavo Bianchi, Alla terra dei Galla. Milano ¹1884, ²1886, ³1896.
 * E. Haberland, "Bemerkungen zur Kultur und Sprache der «Galila» im Wonč'i-See (Mittel-Äthiopien)", in: Rassegna di studi etiopici 16 (1960), pp. 5-22.
 * Gideon Goldenberg, "Kəstanəñña: Studies in a Northern Gurage Language of Christians", in: Orientalia Suecana 17 (1968), 61-102 [=Gideon Goldenberg, Studies in Semitic Linguistics, The Magnes Press: Jerusalem 1998 ISBN 9652239925].
 * idem, "L'étude du gouragué et la comparaison chamito-sémitique", in: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma - Problemi attuali di Scienza e di Cultura, Quad. N. 191 II (1974), pp. 235-249 [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics, pp. 463-477].
 * idem, "The Semitic Languages of Ethiopia and Their Classification", in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 40 (1977), pp. 461-507. [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics, pp. 286-332].
 * idem, "Linguistic Interest in Gurage and the Gurage Etymological Dictionary" [Review article of Wolf Leslau (1979)], in: Annali, Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli 47 (1987), pp. 75-98. [=Studies in Semitic Linguistics, pp. 439-462].
 * idem, "Two points of Kəstane grammar", in: Grover Hudson (ed.), Essays on Gurage language and culture : dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his 90th birthday, November 14th, 1996, Harrassowitz: Wiesbaden 1996 (ISBN 3447038306), pp. 93-99.
 * Wolf Leslau, Ethiopians speak : Studies in cultural background, III. Soddo. Near Eastern Studies, 11. Berkeley: University of California Press 1968.
 * idem, Etymological Dictionary of Gurage (Ethiopic). 3 vols. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1979. ISBN 3-447-02041-5.
 * idem, Gurage Studies: Collected Articles, Otto Harrasowitz: Wiesbaden 1992. ISBN 3-447-03189-1
 * Johannes Mayer, Kurze Wörtersammlung in Englisch, Deutsch, Amharisch, Gallansich, Guraguesch, herausgegeben von Dr. L. Krapf. Basel: Pilgermissions-Buchdruckerei St. Grischona 1878.
 * Franz Praetorius, "Ueber den Dialekt von Gurāguē", in: Die amharische Sprache, Halle 1879, pp. 507-523 (second appendix).
 * Robert Hetzron, "Main Verb-Markers in Northern Gurage", in: Africa XXXVIII (1968), pp. 156-172.
 * yä-Kəstane Gurage əmmät (həzb) tarik. Addis Ababa 1986 (Ethiopian calendar).

Harari

 * Abdurahman Garad and Ewald Wagner. 1998. Harari-Studien : Texte mit Übersetzung, grammatischen Skizzen und Glossar. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 344703937X.
 * Gardner, Simon and Ralph Siebert. 2001. "Sociolinguistic survey report of the Zay language area." SIL Electronic Survey Reports, 2002-024. PDF
 * Cohen, Marcel. 1931. Etudes d'éthiopien méridional. Paris. pp. 243-354.
 * Leslau, Wolf. 1958. The verb in Harari : (South Ethiopic). Berkeley: University of California Press.
 * Leslau, Wolf. 1965. Ethiopians speak. Studies in cultural background. Part I: Harari. Near Eastern Studies, no. 7. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kayla language

 * "Kaïliña – a "new" Agaw dialect and its implications for Agaw dialectology". In Voice and Power. The Culture of Language in North-East Africa. Ed. by R.J. Hayward & I. Lewis. pp. 1-19. London, SOAS. 1996 (March). ISBN 0-7286-0257-1.
 * David Appleyard, "Preparing a Comparative Agaw Dictionary", in ed. Griefenow-Mewis & Voigt, Cushitic & Omotic Languages: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium Berlin, Mar. 17-19, 1994, Rudiger Koppe Verlag, Koln 1996. ISBN 3-927620-28-9.

Khamtanga language

 * D.L. Appleyard (1987). "A Grammatical Sketch of Khamtanga—I". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Vol. 50.

Berta

 * Torben Andersen. "Aspects of Berta phonology". Afrika und Übersee 76: pp. 41-80.
 * Torben Andersen. "Absolutive and Nominative in Berta". ed. Nicolai & Rottland, Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium.  Nice, 24-29 August 1992.  Proceedings. (Nilo-Saharan 10).  Koeln: Koeppe Verlag. 1995.  pp.36-49.
 * M. Lionel Bender. "Berta Lexicon".  In Bender (ed.), Topics in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics (Nilo-Saharan 3), pp. 271-304.  Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag 1989.
 * E. Cerulli. "Three Berta dialects in western Ethiopia", Africa, 1947.
 * A. N. Tucker & M. A. Bryan. Linguistic Analyses: The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa. London: Oxford University Press 1966.
 * A. Triulzi, A. A. Dafallah, and M. L. Bender. "Berta". In Bender (ed.), The Non-Semitic Languages of Ethiopia.  East Lansing, Michigan: African Studies Center, Michigan State University 1976, pp. 513-532.

Rer Bare

 * Bender, M. L. The Ethiopian Nilo-Saharans. Artistic Printers, Addis Ababa 1975.

Shabo

 * Peter Unseth. 1984. Shabo (Mekeyir). A first discussion of classification and vocabulary. [Unpublished manuscript]
 * Tefera Anbessa and Peter Unseth. 1989. "Toward the classification of Shabo (Mikeyir)." In M. Lionel Bender (ed.), Topics in Nilo-Saharan linguistics, 405-18. Nilo-Saharan, 3. Hamburg: Helmut Buske. ISBN 3-87118-927-8 (NISA 3).  (This was the primary source for this article.)
 * Tefera Anbessa. 1991. "A Sketch of Shabo Grammar". in: M. Lionel Bender (ed.), 1991, Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo Saharan Conference Bayreuth, Aug. 30.
 * Fleming, Harold C. 1991. "Shabo: presentation of data and preliminary classification", in: M. Lionel Bender (ed.), 1991, Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo Saharan Conference Bayreuth, Aug. 30.
 * Teferra Anbessa 1991. "A sketch of Shabo grammar", in: M. Lionel Bender (ed.), 1991, Proceedings of the Fourth Nilo Saharan Conference Bayreuth, Aug. 30.
 * Teferra Anbessa. 1995. "Brief phonology of Shabo (Mekeyir)". Robert Nicolaï et Franz Rottland, eds., Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24-29 août 1992. Proceedings, pp.169-193. Köln, Köppe Verlag. Sep. 2, 1989 (Nilo-Saharan 7), Hamburg: Helmut Buske. pp. 29-38. (Used in this article.)
 * Christopher Ehret. 1995. "Do Krongo and Shabo belong in Nilo-Saharan?". Robert Nicolaï et Franz Rottland, eds., Fifth Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium. Nice, 24-29 août 1992. Proceedings, pp.169-193. Köln, Köppe Verlag. Sep. 2, 1989 (Nilo-Saharan 7), Hamburg: Helmut Buske. pp. 389-402. ISBN 3-927620-72-6.

Turkana

 * Dimmendaal, Gerrit (1983) The Turkana language. Dordrecht: Foris. ISBN 9070176831
 * Barrett, A. (1988) English-Turkana dictionary. Nairobi: MacMillan Kenya. ISBN 0333445775
 * Barrett, A. (1990) Turkana-English dictionary. London: MacMillan. ISBN 0333536541

Omotic languages
See esp. SIL: http://www.sil.org/silesr/indexes/country.html (under #Ethiopia - focuses on Omotic languages)

Aari

 * "Notes on the Aari Language", Richard Hayward. Chapter 8 of Omotic Language Studies, ed. Richard Hayward. SOAS: London 1990.

Anfillo
(last four not yet used) Yigezu, Moges & Yehualashet (1995) 'Anfillo: a sketch of grammar and lexicon', Afrikanistisch Arbeitspapiere, 43. Cologne: University of Cologne/Institute of African Studies.
 * Goshu, Debela & Demeke, Girma Awgichew [2005] 'Some points on Anfillo' (unpublished handout, International Conference on Endangered Ethiopian Languages, Addis Ababa 27-30 April 2005).
 * Wedekind, Klaus & Wedekind, Charlotte (2002) 'Sociolinguistic Survey Report on Languages of the Asosa-Begi-Komosha area, Part II' (SIL Electronic Survey Report 2002-055). [contains a map]
 * Gebre Bizuneh (1994) 'The Phonology of Anfillo' (unpublished M.A. thesis, Addis Abeba University)
 * Amanuel Alemayehu (2001) 'Noun Phrase in Anfillo' (unpublished B.A. thesis, Addis Abeba University)
 * Yigezu, Moges (1995b) 'Dying twice: the case of Anfillo languages', Afrikanistisch Arbeitspapiere, 43. Cologne: University of Cologne/Institute of African Studies.

Bench

 * Mary J. Breeze, "A Sketch of the Phonology and Grammar of Gimira (Benchnon)", in Richard J. Hayward (ed.), Omotic Language Studies, SOAS: London 1990.

Ongota

 * Fleming, Harold 2002. "Ongota Lexicon: English-Ongota".  Mother Tongue, VII, pp. 39-65.
 * Mikesh, P. and Seelig, J.M. 1992. "Ongota or Birale: a moribund language of Gemu-Gofa (Ethiopia)". Journal of Afroasiatic Languages, 3,3:181-225.
 * Savà, Graziano and Mauro Tosco 2000. A sketch of Ongota, a dying language of southwest Ethiopia. Studies in African Linguistics 29.2.59-136.

Oromigna

 * Foot, Edwin C. (1913, Reprint: 1968) A Galla-English, English-Galla dictionary. Farnborough, Gregg. ISBN 0-576116-22-X
 * Tamene Bitima (2000) A dictionary of Oromo technical terms. Oromo - English. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. ISBN 3-89645-062-X
 * Tilahun Gamta (1989) Oromo-English dictionary. Addis Ababa: University Printing Press.
 * Gragg, Gene B. et al. (ed., 1982) Oromo Dictionary. Monograph (Michigan State University. Committee on Northeast African Studies) no. 12. East Lansing, Mich. : African Studies Center, Michigan State Univ.
 * Griefenow-Mewis, C. and Tamene Bitima (1994) Lehrbuch des Oromo. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. ISBN 3-927620-05-X
 * Mohammed Ali, Zaborski, A. (1990) Handbook of the Oromo Language. Wroclaw, Poland: Polska Akademia Nauk. ISBN 8-304033-16-X
 * Praetorius, Franz (1872, Reprint: 1973) Zur Grammatik der Gallasprache. Hildesheim ; New York : G. Olms. ISBN 3-487065-56-8
 * Stroomer, Harry (1987) A comparative study of three Southern Oromo dialects in Kenya. Hamburg: Helmut Buske Verlag. ISBN 3-87118-846-8
 * Taha M. Roba (2004) Modern Afaan Oromo grammar : qaanqee galma Afaan Oromo. Bloomington, IN : Authorhouse. ISBN 1-418474-80-0

Qemant language
(also Kemant)

SIL: http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/031/ (excellent resource - Sociolinguistic, cultural, and some analysis of the language)

Qwara language

 * "Kaïliña &mdash; a "new" Agaw dialect and its implications for Agaw dialectology". In Voice and Power. The Culture of Language in North-East Africa. Ed. by R.J. Hayward & I. Lewis. pp. 1-19. London, SOAS. 1996 (March). ISBN 0-7286-0257-1.

Saho language
(Irob)

Sidamo

 * Anbessa Teferra (2000) A grammar of Sidaama. Doctoral dissertation. Jerusalem, Israel: The Hebrew University.
 * Gasparini, A. (1983) Sidamo-English dictionary. Bologna, Italy: E.M.I.

Somali

 * Diriye Abdullahi, Mohamed. 2000. Le Somali, dialectes et histoire, PH.D. dissertation, Université de Montréal
 * Saeed, John Ibrahim. Somali Reference Grammar. Springfield, VA: Dunwoody Press, 1993. (ISBN 0931745977)
 * Saeed, John Ibrahim. Somali. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, B.V., 1999.

Tigrinya

 * Amanuel Sahle (1998) Säwasǝw Tǝgrǝñña bǝsäffiw. Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press. ISBN 1-56902-096-5 Grammar
 * Dan'el Täxlu Räda (1996, Eth. Cal.) '. Grammar'''
 * Eritrean People's Liberation Front (1985) Dictionary, English-Tigrigna-Arabic. Rome: EPLF.
 * Kane, Thomas L. (2000) Tigrinya-English Dictionary (2 vols). Springfield, VA: Dunwoody Press. ISBN 1-881265-68-4
 * Leslau, Wolf (1941) Documents Tigrigna (Éthiopien Septentrional): Grammaire et Textes. Paris: Librairie C. Klincksieck.
 * Mason, John (Ed.) (1996) , Tigrinya Grammar. Lawrenceville, NJ, USA: Red Sea Press. ISBN 0-932415-20-2 (ISBN 0-932415-21-0, paperback)
 * Praetorius, F. (1871) Grammatik der Tigriñasprache in Abessinien. Halle. ISBN 3-487-05191-5 (1974 reprint) Grammar
 * Täxästä Täxlä et al. (1989, Eth. Cal.) '. Addis Ababa: . Dictionary'''
 * Ullendorff, E. (1985) A Tigrinya Chrestomathy. Stuttgart: F. Steiner. ISBN 3-515-04314-4
 * Ze'im Girma (1983) . Asmara: Government Printing Press.

Weyto

 * Bender, M. L., J. D. Bowen, C. A. Cooper, and C. A. Ferguson, eds. 1976. Language in Ethiopia. Oxford University Press.
 * Bender, M. L., ed. 1983. Nilo-Saharan language studies. Dallas, Texas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
 * Bruce, James M. 1790. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 1768-73 (5 vols.)  Edinburgh: G. Robinson & J. Robinson. (vol. iii, p. 403)
 * Cohen, Marcel. Nouvelles Etudes d'Ethiopien Méridional. Paris: Champion.  pp. 358-371.
 * Dimmendaal, Gerrit. 1989. "On Language Death in Eastern Africa", in Dorian, Nancy C. (ed.), Investigating obsolescence: Studies in language contraction and death (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 7.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
 * Gamst, Frederick. 1965.  Travel and research in northern Ethiopia.  (Notes for Anthropologists and Other Field Workers in Ethiopia 2.)  Addis Ababa Institute for Ethiopian Studies, Haile Selassie I University.
 * Gamst, Frederick. 1979.  "Wayto ways: Change from hunting to peasant life", in Hess (ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, Session B.  Chicago: University of Illionis at Chicago Circle.
 * Gamst, Frederick. 1984.  "Wayto", in Weeks, R. V. (ed.), Muslim peoples: a world ethnographic survey, 2nd edition, (2 vols.)  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
 * Griaule, Marcel. Les flambeurs d'hommes.  Paris 1934.
 * Mittwoch, Eugen. 1907. "Proben aus dem amharischen Volksmund", Mittheilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin 10(2), pp. 185-241.
 * Sommer, Gabriele. "A survey on language death in Africa", in Matthias Brenziger (ed.), Language Death: Factual and Theoretical Explorations with Special Reference to East Africa.  Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter 1992.

Zay

 * Ambaw Demissie (1990), The phonology of Zay: A generative approach. M.A. thesis. Addis Ababa University.
 * Getu Shikur (1999), Morphology of Zay. M.A. thesis. Addis Ababa University.
 * Wolf Leslau (1999), Zway Ethiopic Documents. Aethiopische Forschungen, Band 51. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 3-447-04162-5.
 * Ronny Meyer (2005), Das Zay: Deskriptive Grammatik einer Ostguragesprache (Äthiosemitisch). Grammatical Analyses of African Languages, vol. 25. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe. ISBN 3-89645-541-9.

SIL: http://www.sil.org/silesr/2002/024/ (on whole language area, not just Zay language - statistical & sociolinguistic, not analytical and descriptive of the language)

Statistical

 * Herausgegeben von Uhlig, Siegbert,  Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden:Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003/05/07/09.
 * Marcus, Harold G. Editor. Hudson, Grover. Associate Editor. New Trends in Ethiopian Studies:Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Michigan State University 5-10 September 1994: Volume II: Social Sciences''. NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 1994. (esp. agricultural and economic [i.e. developmental])

Politics

 * Marcus, Harold G. Editor. Hudson, Grover. Associate Editor. New Trends in Ethiopian Studies:Papers of the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies: Michigan State University 5-10 September 1994: Volume II: Social Sciences''. NJ: The Red Sea Press, Inc., 1994. (1977-1994)

Periodicals
The following periodicals are all available through subscription databases, at least in citation form or in full text. If any editors wish information from these sources, please drop me an e-mail with your address and the information you are seeking, whether topical, from a specific source, or a specific time, and I will forward to you the information I find. John Carter (talk) 17:47, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Addis Fortune (2008-on)