Africa - Lonely Planet Africa Phrasebook 1st Ed

Publisher: Hippocrene Books. Publication date: 1996. ISBN: 0781804566. Number of pages: 120. This is the only dictionary and phrasebook on the Lingala language. Curious about the language I bought this book to familiarzie myself with some vocabulary as I am interested in the culture of the Congo. This compact dictionary is better than what I thought it would be. It really is very useful for anyone that is willing to make a trip into the Congo R...

EIDOS Pages: 267 Publisher: Routledge (This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.) Quality: good: pdf Review This volume is a path-breaking and much needed contribution to the study of the politics of language in modern Africa. Not only does it fill a critical gap in Africanist scholarship, its theoretically sophisticated and ethnographically rich essays directly engage some of the most pressing issues within both contem...

Издательство: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. Год: 2003. Количество страниц: 552. ISBN: 0810848562. Directed at nonspecialists and specialists alike, this book provides factual information about Egypt since 1760, with special emphasis on the modern period, together with appropriate historical interpretation. It stresses people, events, and institutions relevant to Egypt's political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural development.

Pages: 390 Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2008) Quality: good: pdf More than forty years ago it was demonstrated that the African continent can be divided into four distinct language families. Research on African languages has accordingly been preoccupied with reconstructing and understanding similarities across these families. This has meant that an interest in other kinds of linguistic relationship, such as whether structural similarit...

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication date: 2004 Number of pages: 319 This is a complete course in understanding and speaking Xhosa, the laguage spoken by oiver six million people, principally in the eastern cape territory of South Africa. If you have never learned Xhosa before, or if your Xhosa needs brushing up, 'Teach yourself Xhosa' will give a thorough grounding in the basics and will take you to a level where you can communicate with confidenc...

NTC Publishing Group 1973. ISBN: 9780844237916; 394 p. This book provides a complete working course in Hausa, one of the most important languages of West Africa. This course in Hausa introduces the grammar in a series of graded lessons, complete with test sentences, dialogue exercises, typical conversation pieces, and some traditional fables and proverbs. Throughout the course, special attention is given to the problems of pronunciation. Easy-ref...

Publisher: Polish Academy of Sciences Publication date: 1990 Number of pages: 174 ISBN: 83-04-03316-X A textbook of Oromo (Afaan Oromoo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia with some 25 million speakers. Oromo (till 1974 known mostly by the now rejected name 'Galla') is one of the major African languages. With its at least 20 million native speakers living in Ethiopia, Northern Kenya and Somalia, Oromo is one of the most widely spoken languages of...

The Central Mission Press, Cleveland, Transvaal 1965. 124 pages. The Tsonga or Xitsonga language is spoken in southern Africa by the Tsonga people, also known as the Shangaan. Tsonga belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo languages. The language of the Tsonga people is wrongly called Xichangana (or "Shangaan" by outsiders) because the people were under the Leadership of Soshangana "Manukusa" (Zulu). Shangaan has different variants, some o...

Publisher: Mcdougall's Educational Co., Ltd. Number of pages: 144. Zulu grammatical lessons for beginners. It has been my privilege and pleasure for a number of years to teach the Zulu language to the Missionaries of the South Africa General Mission, who have, from time to time, come to South Africa to work among the Zulu speaking peoples. When it first became part of my duty to teach the Zulu language there were not so many Zulu Grammars as at...

Pages: 382 Publisher: Oxford University Press (2008) Quality: good: pdf This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes an...