Author: Edwin William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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A Handbook of the Ila Language...
Author: Edwin William SmithA Handbook of the Ila Language (commonly Called the Seshukulumbwe) Spoken in North-western Rhodesia and South-central Africa
Author: Edwin William SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Ila Speaking
Author: Dennis G. FowlerPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825861155
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
" ""The Ila Speaking"" is a record of life in a Central African village around a century ago. It originated in conversations recorded by Methodist missionaries as they attempted to learn the language and customs of the Ila people. Over the years 1906 to 1966 they collected over 12000 items. What began as a vocabulary with examples ended as the self-portrait of a people and a way of life. The author worked with the Ila from 1958 to 1966, later producing a ""Dictionary of Ila Usage"" (LIT Verlag 2000). The present book is a series of extracts from the dictionary arranged by subject, with a commentary. It is the author's hope that `the voices come over loud and clear to you the reader, and that you come away from this book with a feel for Ila humour, Ila life, and Ila reflections on people and their ways. I did, and I am sure you will too' (Professor Graham Furniss, School of Oriental and African Studies - London). "
A Dictionary of Ila Usage, 1860-1960
Author: Dennis G. FowlerPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783825847678
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
This book is based on material collected by missionaries at Kasenga Mission in Zambia. Edwin Smith began in 1901 to note each new Ila word, together with illustrative sentences dictated by his Ila informants. Later missionaries continued this practice, so that in 1959 the author found a mass of over 12,000 items already collected. As the largest body of Ila ever assembled, the dictionary offers much of interest in several fields. The language has a consistent agglutinative structure of great sophistication, logical as Latin, flexible as Greek. The speakers reveal not merely the preoccupations of daily existence in Ila villages a century ago, but an outlook both sensitive and wryly humourous. Feared in battle, fearful of spirits, revering God; hunters of lion and buffalo, polygamous, romantic, ribald in men's company, but highly proper in women's, tender towards children, with a high regard for the arts of hospitality, conversation, and love, the Baila spring with verve from these pages. Appendices list nearly 2,000 synonyms, 276 proverbs, l64 metaphors, 216 customs, 400 trees with their medicinal uses, 290 plants, 150 birds, and grammatical tables.
The Ila-speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia
Author: Edwin William SmithCultural and Language Diversity and the Deaf Experience
Author: Ila ParasnisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645652
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This edited book presents an detailed analysis of the experience of deaf people as a bilingual-bicultural minority group in America. An overview of mainstream research on bilingualism and biculturalism is followed by specific research and conceptual analyses which examine the impact of cultural and language diversity on the experiences of deaf people. The book ends with poignant personal reflections from deaf community members. The contributors include prominent deaf and hearing experts in bilingualism, ASL and Deaf culture, and deaf education.
The Periodical
Author: Lenje Handbook
Author: Arthur Cornwallis MadanPublisher:
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Category : Lenje language
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
African Affairs
Author: Journal of the African Society
Author: African SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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