Author: St. Augustine's Mission (Penhalonga, South Africa)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A Dictionary, with Notes on the Grammar of the Mashona Language, Commonly Called Chiswina
Author: St. Augustine's Mission (Penhalonga, South Africa)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages
Author: Alice WernerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A Comparative Study of the Bantu and Semi-Bantu Languages
Author: Harry JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 846
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages
Author: Alice WernerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429868855
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
First published in 1919, this volume provides a detailed linguistic breakdown of the Bantu language family of Central and Southern Africa. Its author held in-situ expertise in Nanja, Swahili, Zulu, Giryama and Pokomo. A professor of Swahili and Bantu languages, she was the author of several books on Bantu languages and African peoples. The volume aims to depict the broad principles underlying the structure of the Bantu language family and attempts a classification of those languages. Contemporaneous with the colonization of Tanzania, many of the areas to which this volume was relevant were under British control at the time of publication.
A Grammar of the Kaffir Language
Author: James McLarenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kafir language (Bantu)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Southern Bantu Languages
Author: Clement M. DokePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351598414
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
For the purposes of this volume, originally published in 1954, two southern zones of Bantu have been included - south of the Zambesi and east of the Kalahari. The book discusses the phonetic and morphological characteristics of these 2 zones and a classification of the groups, clusters and dialects is provided. For comparative purposes detailed information on some striking dialectical forms is given in the appendices.
An International Bibliography of African Lexicons
Author: Melvin K. HendrixPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810814783
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.
Law, Language, and Science
Author: Diana JeaterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031309439X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book examines the mentalities of various communities within a district of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). Focusing in particular on white administrators and missionaries in the Melsetter District, it combines linguisitc/lexical analysis with historical interpretation, in an attempt to reconstruct what whites and Africans actually meant by the words and practices they used in interactions with each other. Jeater provides a detailed study of translation work in Mt Selinda, an evangelical mission; it also examines formal and informal court hearings, to contrast the perceptions and meanings ascribed to cases by white adjudicators and by African participants. This leads into an initial attempt to map out the birth of ethnography in Southern Rhodesia and to contrast it with anthropology in South Africa. By the 1920s, Africans' expertise in their own languages and culture had been usurped by self-referential white linguists and ethnographers. This account suggests that there is a tendency among archive-oriented historians to overestimate how far white missionaries and administrators really understood what Africans said and did. In addition to making a contribution to our empirical knowledge of Zimbabwe's history, the book focuses on how and why investigators first began to make claims to such knowledge. It urges those studying African history to be self-reflective about their practice, examining the historical roots of their claims to expertise. such claims
Bantu
Author: Clement M. DokePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351601555
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Originally published in 1945, this volume represented the first to classify Bantu languages. This volume does not record all the dialects but makes reference to those in which some grammatical study has been done and classifies them according to mainly geographical zones. Owing to tribal migrations, individual members of a particular zone may be living among members of a different zone (as has been the case with the Ngoni, South-Eastern Zone, who are found among the Eastern Bantu), but the zone label is taken from the habitat of the majority.