Author: St. Augustine's Mission (Penhalonga, South Africa)Publisher:
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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:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages
Author: Alice WernerPublisher:
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Category : Bantu languages
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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.
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: 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
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Author: British Library
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