Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages

Introductory Sketch of the Bantu Languages
Author: Alice Werner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0429868855

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.

Grammars of Colonialism

Grammars of Colonialism
Author: Rachael Gilmour
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2006-10-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0230286852

The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.

An English-Kaffir Dictionary, Principally of the Xosa-Kaffir But Including Also Many Words of the Zu

An English-Kaffir Dictionary, Principally of the Xosa-Kaffir But Including Also Many Words of the Zu
Author: William Jafferd Davis
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781019007198

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

An International Bibliography of African Lexicons

An International Bibliography of African Lexicons
Author: Melvin K. Hendrix
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1982
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780810814783

Contains 3,500 entries, representing almost 700 African languages and over 200 dialects, spanning over 400 years of African lexicographical writing and research.