Hirut Woldemariam|Elizabeth Lanza
Language contact, agency and power in the linguistic landscape of two regional capitals of Ethiopia
Addis Ababa University|University of Oslo
abstract issue language contact linguistic landscape rarely addressed especially regards issues agency power domain multilingual practices linguistic landscape provides arena investigating agency related literacy language rights identity article explore linguistic landscape two different regions ethiopia provide analysis language contact takes place regional languages recently made transition literacy country result new language policy amharic federal working language long established history literacy study based data collected field work participant observation two federal regions country tigray oromia two regions fought recognition language rights tigrinya oromo former semitic language like amharic latter cushitic language results indicate ways speakers regional languages draw multilingual resources create new arena language use thereby assert agency developing new literacy practices