Peace Corps. Wollof Grammar Manual

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...

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Publication date: 2005 ISBN: 1592441459 Number of pages: 581 + 11 Tables I am not going to appraise the value of that book. It is enough to say that for the past hundred year (exactly!) the grammar has been evaluated as a fundamental work, a monumental book etc. No grammar of Ethiopic could replace it up to now. There is no Semitist, no scholar interested in Hamito-Semitic linguistics who wouldn't praise t...

Publisher: Cape Town : College of Careers. Publication date: 1993. ISBN: 0798508299. Number of pages: 62. If you are only starting Xhosa. read through the first two pages and try the first f?ur quizzes. Then read ?e notes on each section befo?e studying the tables themselves. Glance at ?e notes below each table, only noting lvhat will help you to understand the table itself. Refer to the definitions and abbreviations on page L6 if necessary. Try...

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...

NTC Publishing Group 1973. ISBN: 9780844237916; 394 p. This book provides a complete working course in Hausa, one of the most important languages of West Africa. This course in Hausa introduces the grammar in a series of graded lessons, complete with test sentences, dialogue exercises, typical conversation pieces, and some traditional fables and proverbs. Throughout the course, special attention is given to the problems of pronunciation. Easy-ref...

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...