January 2016

An analysis of linguistic landscape of selected towns in Oromia: An ethnolinguistic vitality study

This study investigates the strength of the ethnolinguistic vitality of different languages in Adama, Jimma and Sabata towns, mainly based on the objective of ethnolinguistic vitality score. A corpus of 900 signs were collected from the three towns, 300 signs each. The informational contents of the languages on signs were observed. Data were also collected using in depth interview with five linguistic landscape actors...

Author(s): Alemayehu Fekede and Takele Gemechu