Kuria-English Dictionary

Kuria-English Dictionary

Author: Sammy M. Muniko

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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" Kuria-speaking people number about one million, with a homeland stretching from Kuria District in southwest Kenya through to North and South Mara in northern Tanzania. This is the first published dictionary of their language. It has been compiled especially with a view to its practical use, employing the standard Swahili orthography and avoiding complex grammatical notation. At the same time it is concerned to show the great richness of Kuria as a language which uses the full range of the common Bantu structural forms of verb and noun to express subtleties of meaning. It is intended partly as a record of the language and in this respect will be of use to comparative linguists. (A computerised version is available on disk.) It will be essential to anyone wishing to learn the Kuria language, including non-Kuria working in the area of Kenya and Tanzania where Kuria is spoken, but it should also be of interest to Kuria themselves, not least to Kuria school pupils looking for direct access to English through their own language. Sammy M. Muniko was born in Buirege, Kuria District, in 1946, trained as a teacher, and after some years as an Education Officer became Headmaster of St. Joseph Ntimaru Secondary School, a position he still holds. He has written school reading texts and advised nationally on the use of languages in schools. Benedict Muita oMagige was a teacher who made an extensive collection of Kuria proverbs, and owed much of his interest in Kuria traditional culture to his father, Joseph Magige oTatwa, of Renchoka, a former prominent chief. Ben died shortly after this dictionary was completed. Malcolm J. Ruel is an Oxford trained social anthropologist who compiled the original wordlist from which this dictionary has developed. He has written widely on Kuria culture and a collection of his essays on Kuria religion and related topics is shortly to be published by E. J. Brill. "


Kuria Cattle Raiders

Kuria Cattle Raiders

Author: Michael L. Fleisher

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780472086986

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An ethnographic study of East African cattle raiding which critiques the policies of the postcolonial Tanzanian state


A Pastoral Democracy

A Pastoral Democracy

Author: I. M. Lewis

Publisher: James Currey Publishers

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9780852552803

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With a new Introduction by Said S. Samatar and an Afterword by the author


Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life

Belief, Ritual and the Securing of Life

Author: Ruel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-09-20

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 900466467X

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This collection of essays focuses upon the religion and ritual of the Kuria people of East Africa, but uses this material to raise wider comparative and cross-cultural issues regarding broad themes in eastern Bantu religions as well as western assumptions about religion and individual personhood.


Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Sergio Baldi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-10-16

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 9004680780

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The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the presence of its lexicon in African languages. No doubt the Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the world outside of Europe, and as such they were also the first to introduce that world to European concepts and words.This book is the result of a long and detailed work on texts in African languages, as also shown by the rich bibliography in the dictionary.


The Great Dictionary Swedish - English

The Great Dictionary Swedish - English

Author: Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer

Publisher: Benjamin Maximilian Eisenhauer

Published:

Total Pages: 4490

ISBN-13:

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This dictionary contains around 60,000 Swedish terms with their English translations, making it one of the most comprehensive books of its kind. It offers a wide vocabulary from all areas as well as numerous idioms. The terms are translated from Swedish to English. If you need translations from English to Swedish, then the companion volume The Great Dictionary English - Swedish is recommended.