Hudson R. A Grammatical Study of Beja

Publisher: Bookworld Publ. Publication date: 2001. ISBN: 9982240161. Number of pages: 96. This is the fourth in a series of individual publications on Zambian languages and grammar. The intention of the series is to boost the meagre scholarship and availability of educational materials on Zambian languages, which became particularly in urgent in 1996, following the decision of the Zambian government to revert to the policy of using local langua...

EIDOS Pages: 267 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.) Quality: good: pdf Review This volume is a path-breaking and much needed contribution to the study of the politics of language in modern Africa. Not only does it fill a critical gap in Africanist scholarship, its theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich essays directly engage some of the most pressing issues within both contem...

Bookworld Publ., 2002. - 120 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 9982241591 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9789982241595 First published as a chapter in Language in Zambia: Grammatical Sketches by the Institute of African Studies (now the Institute of Economic and Social Research) in 1977, this is the second in a series of individual publications on Zambian languages and grammar. The intention of the series is to boost the meagre scholarship and availability of educational ma...

Publisher: University of Michigan. Publication date: 2007. Number of pages: 597. This dissertation is a study of the verbal tone patterns Lumarachi and Lunyala— two previously undescribed dialects of Luluyia, a Bantu language of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. On the basis of data collected by the author primarily during field research, it describes and analyzes the many tonal alternations that are triggered in each dialect by tense-aspect di...

Mercer S. Ethiopic Grammar with Chrestomathy and Glossary. New York. 1961. 116 p. In French and in German, each, there is an excellent beginner's book for the study of Ethiopic-Chaine, Grammaire Ethiopienne, and Praetorius, Aelhiopische Grammatik. In English there is no such book. Crichton's translation of Bezold's edition of Dillmann's great work on Ethiopic Grammar has no reading exercises, and is hopeless for a beginner, although an indispensa...

Raz Sh. Tigre Grammar and Texts. - Malibu: Undena Publications, 1983. - VII + 148 p. This work comprises two parts: the first part consists of a concise descriptive grammar of the Mansac dialect of the Tigre language; the second part contains a selection of new Tigre texts. The motive for the present work is the state of research of the Tigre language: practically none of the grammatical works of the earlier period of Tigre studies are of descri...

Publisher: FSI. Publication date: 1963. Number of pages: 308. A manual on lingala, known also as mangala, a trade language spoken in areas on both sides of the congo river, is presented. The speaker on whose speech the materials are based is from leopoldville. The transcription system consists of the orthography regularly used to write lingala plus diacritical markings to clearly indicate tone and pronunciation. Lingala is a tone language consi...

Publisher: Mcdougall's Educational Co., Ltd. Number of pages: 144. Zulu grammatical lessons for beginners. It has been my privilege and pleasure for a number of years to teach the Zulu language to the Missionaries of the South Africa General Mission, who have, from time to time, come to South Africa to work among the Zulu speaking peoples. When it first became part of my duty to teach the Zulu language there were not so many Zulu Grammars as at...