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Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1981. First edition. ix,(3),205pp. Plus 1 page publisher's ads. Brick cloth decorated in gilt. Illustrated with 2 maps. A scarce volume of the "Ethiopians Speak" series. No other copies are currently on line. Äthiopistische Forschungen ;; Band 11" From the collection of Wolf Leslau. Wolf Leslau was undoubtedly the greatest Semiticist linguist of the past century, many would even say of all time. He was born in Czestochowa, Poland, on November 14, 1906, and died in Fullerton, California, on November 18, 2006. The centenarian was working almost up to his final day on a descriptive grammar of the Ethio-Semitic language Gogot. As with so much of his work, his grammars were based on material he had collected doing fieldwork, in this particular case many decades before. He published more than fifty volumes and more than two hundred articles in a variety of international journals over a long and distinguished career of seventy-plus years, and he is known as a most prodigious… Read More