چکیده (انگلیسی):

The purpose of this study was to collect and analyze some selected Wolaita proverbs
for their implications of Wolaita's social realm of life. The subjects used for the
current study were 60 theme-relevant proverbs collected by interviewing
systematically selected 20 elders and through conducting participant-based
observation being part of social interactions taking place in different villages of
Wolaita. The descriptive research design was used to conduct this study using the
qualitative method of data analysis. The result indicated that Wolaita proverbs
embody Wolaita's soial facet of life: promoting faithfulness, enhancing cooperation
among people, promoting mutual respect among people in the society, encouraging
good deeds and discouraging bad behavior, promoting neighborhood and relativity
relationships, teaching moral principles to young generation and non-conformity for
the acts deviant to the accepted social values. Based on these findings, therefore,
deep and series studies that promote the frequent use of Wolaita proverbs in all
adequate contexts of interaction, awareness enhancement training for young
generations for effective use of Wolaita proverbs in the appropriate interactional
situations, making proverbs as part of language curriculum in all levels of education
and maintenance of Wolaita proverbs as vehicles of transferring indigenous wisdom
to the next generation are recommended to be implemented by the all concerned
bodies across the nation.