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Title:Tigrigna Folk Poetry
Author:Sahle, Amanuel
Year:1981
Periodical:Ethiopian Journal of African Studies
Volume:1
Issue:2
Period:December
Pages:101-104
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:Tigre
oral poetry (form)
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
Abstract:Although most of Tigrigna's lyric poems and proverbs are rarely seen in print, they live in the legends, and traditions of a people who commit them to memory. The author here presents three different funeral lamentations, recreating them in English 'to make our cultural and literary heritage known to the world'. Abstr., notes.
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