^{page 335 note 1} For the distribution of Gurage, see map in Bryan, M. A., The Distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic Languages of Africa, O.U.P. for International African Institute, 1947.Google Scholar

^{page 335 note 2} It is probably only equalled in this deficiency by Gafat and Argobba, whereas Ge'ez and Amharic have been well covered, Tigrinya and Harari somewhat less so, and Tigre only slightly more adequately than Gurage.

^{page 336 note 1} Ethiopic Documents: Gurage. By Leslau, Wolf. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 14; New York, 1950. Pp. 176, 12 plates. §3‘3·00.Google Scholar

^{page 337 note 1} Hitherto Ethiopia's only modern historian; see his Amharic History of the people of Ethiopia, Asmara, 1927, p. 49.Google Scholar

^{page 337 note 2} i.e. the present Gurage region.

^{page 337 note 3} for -ge cf. Guidi, , Vocabolario Amarico, col. 701.Google Scholar

^{page 337 note 4} During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia Gura was the H.Q. of the Italian Air Force in East Africa and is described, in characteristic terms, by the excellent Guida dell'Africa Orientale Italiana (p. 268) as ‘il più grande campo d'aviazione che sia mai esistito nel continente’.

^{page 338 note 1} It would be very interesting to learn what these special signs for Gurage are.

^{page 339 note 1} Leslau's reference to it in Journal Asiatique, 1939, p. 65Google Scholar, as a dialectal peculiarity of the Hamasien province is not in accordance with the facts; it occurs wherever Tigrinya is spoken, although this may not necessarily become apparent from written documents.

^{page 339 note 2} As the reviewer knows Gurage only from books, he cannot, of course; judge whether the author's method has led to similar difficulties here.

^{page 339 note 3} A good factual statement may, however, be found in M. A. Bryan, op. cit., p. 11.

^{page 339 note 4} For Sidamo see Cerulli's valuable Studi Etiopici, vols. ii and iii, Rome, 1938.Google Scholar

^{page 340 note 1} While this article was in the press, Leslau's short article on ‘Le problème de la gémination du verbe Tchaha (Gouragué)’, in Word, vol. iv, no. i, became accessible to me. There remains, however, much that needs further elucidation and this will presumably be found in the author's promised detailed grammar of Chaha.

^{page 341 note 1} Among those nouns for which Leslau shows different roots for singular and plural, that for ‘woman’ may possibly not have to be included, for mǝšt and ǝšta may conceivably belong to the same root, the initial labial having been dropped (perhaps by way of w ?).

^{page 341 note 2} I am indebted to Dr. C. Rabin for drawing my attention to the parallel phenomenon of the Accadian modus energicus which, of course, has similar significance.

^{page 341 note 3} However, even in the author's method of transcription this should become apparent in verbs where the second radical is either a liquid or a spirantizable consonant.