Author: Edward SteerePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A Handbook of the Swahili Language, as Spoken at Zanzibar. Ed. for the Central African Mission. 2. Ed
Author: Edward SteereA handbook of the Swahili language as spoken at Zanzibar
Author: Edward Steere (bp. of Central Africa.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
A Handbook of the Swahili Language, as Spoken at Zanzibar
Author: Edward SteerePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A handbook of the Swahili language, as spoken at Zanzibar
Author: Edward SteerePublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1177635984
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
A Handbook of the Swahili Language
Author: Edward SteerePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Swahili language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Trübner's Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World
Author: Trübner & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Trubner's Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars of the Principal Languages and Dialects of the World
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385484995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
A Language for the World
Author: Morgan J. RobinsonPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821447815
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
This intellectual history of Standard Swahili explores the long-term, intertwined processes of standard making and community creation in the historical, political, and cultural contexts of East Africa and beyond. Morgan J. Robinson argues that the portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not only across the African continent but also around the globe. The book pivots on the question of whether standardized versions of African languages have empowered or oppressed. It is inevitable that the selection and promotion of one version of a language as standard—a move typically associated with missionaries and colonial regimes—negatively affected those whose language was suddenly deemed nonstandard. Before reconciling the consequences of codification, however, Robinson argues that one must seek to understand the process itself. The history of Standard Swahili demonstrates how events, people, and ideas move rapidly and sometimes surprisingly between linguistic, political, social, or temporal categories. Robinson conducted her research in Zanzibar, mainland Tanzania, and the United Kingdom. Organized around periods of conversation, translation, and codification from 1864 to 1964, the book focuses on the intellectual history of Swahili’s standardization. The story begins in mid-nineteenth-century Zanzibar, home of missionaries, formerly enslaved students, and a printing press, and concludes on the mainland in the mid-twentieth century, as nationalist movements added Standard Swahili to their anticolonial and nation-building toolkits. This outcome was not predetermined, however, and Robinson offers a new context for the strong emotions that the language continues to evoke in East Africa. The history of Standard Swahili is not one story, but rather the connected stories of multiple communities contributing to the production of knowledge. The book reflects this multiplicity by including the narratives of colonial officials and anticolonial nationalists; East African clerks, students, newspaper editors, editorialists, and their readers; and library patrons, academic linguists, formerly enslaved children, and missionary preachers. The book reconstructs these stories on their own terms and reintegrates them into a new composite that demonstrates the central place of language in the history of East Africa and beyond.
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.