This publication describes the usage of languages in the multilingual society of Ethiopia. It is based on empirical studies conducted in nine states of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1997 and 1998. A research team of German and Ethiopian scholars surveyed about 3,500 high school students from 35 Ethiopian towns regarding their language behaviour. The data on the distribution of mother tongues and second languages are published here for the first time and are representative for a typical Ethiopian town. These data outline the development of multilingualism over three generations (students/parents/grandparents) and elucidate factors which promote the spread of multilingualism. The frame for the representation and explanation of the data is an adapted model of the social network theory.

This well-established text on Linguistics has been thoroughly studied especially the Phonological Features of Inor, the language which genetically belongs to the Ethiopian Semitic Languages, in the Outer South Ethiopic branch, particularly to the Peripheral Western Gurage. This text introduces new aspects of the genetic belongingness of the language, Phonetics (Phonemic Inventory of Consonants and Vowels), Phonology, (Phonotactics, Syllable structures of the Language, Morpho-phonological Processes) and some Morphological features of Inor. It mainly discusses the phonological processes of the language - how vowels and consonants interact within the course of speech production. Inor has peculiar phonological processes than other Ethio-Semitic languages. Labialization, Nasalization, Palatalization, and Vowel changes are the common features of the language.

Der OTiMarkt erfreut sich zunehmender Beliebtheit. Dies ist unter anderem darauf zurckzufhren, dass dieser Markt keinen Regulierungen untersteht und die Eintrittshrden im Vergleich zu den Brsen tief sind. Durch den Schritt zur Publikumsgesellschaft geraten die Unternehmen seitens der Aktionre unter Transparenzdruck, andererseits lsst das Schweizerische Obligationenrecht grossen Spielraum fr das Erstellen der Jahresrechnung und schreibt nur grundlegende Mindestvorschriften vor. Im Hinblick auf die Aktienrechtsrevision, welche einen Schritt in Richtung mehr Transparenz anstrebt, wurde analysiert, ob die gesetzlichen Mindestvorschriften zur Rechnungslegung in den Jahresrechnungen von ausserbrslich gehandelten (OTe Unternehmen bertroffen werden.

This publication describes the usage of languages in the multilingual society of Ethiopia. It is based on empirical studies conducted in nine states of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1997 and 1998. A research team of German and Ethiopian scholars surveyed about 3,500 high school students from 35 Ethiopian towns regarding their language behaviour. The data on the distribution of mother tongues and second languages are published here for the first time and are representative for a typical Ethiopian town. These data outline the development of multilingualism over three generations (students/parents/grandparents) and elucidate factors which promote the spread of multilingualism. The frame for the representation and explanation of the data is an adapted model of the social network theory.