If you're looking for a reliable modern Pashto-English dictionary, you're in the right place. This concise dictionary includes 1,300 modern Pashto terms. The words are ordered alphabetically first in English and then in Pashto for convenient access.
Compiled by a linguist specializing in the region, this two-way pocket dictionary and phrasebook offers a map of Afghanistan; information useful for relief workers, business people, and travelers; and a concise grammar, pronunciation guide, and alphabet for one of the country's official languages.
Presents a Farsi-English dictionary containing over 4,000 entries with romanized Farsi text, as well as a phrase book and brief introductions to grammar, pronunciation and the Farsi alphabet.
YOUR FIRST 100 WORDS IN . . . PASHTO A paperback original Takes the intimidation out of learning a new language In the Your First 100 Words In series, readers are shown how to decipher and read a new script by learning 100 primary words in a new language. Covering the languages of Iran and Afghanistan, this new addition to the Your First 100 Words In series can be used by students as a supplement for their language courses, by parents as an introduction for young children, or by learners independently.
Dari Grammar and Phrasebook is the result of many years of research and teaching. It has two parts. Part one (grammar) is a systematic presentation of Dari sound system (phonology, word formation (morphology) and sentence structure (syntax). Each chapter begins with an introduction. This is followed by analysis of the new concepts providing plenty of examples and illustrations. Next comes the chapter summary. Each chapter in part one ends with exercises. Part two (phrasebook) is about how to communicate with Afghans on a variety of situations (topics). This part first discusses language functions such as asking, ordering, requesting, apologizing, persuading, and so on. The second part is about topics or situations involving shopping, health, transportation, security, government and so on. The relevant vocabulary under each topic is listed into nouns, verbs and adjectives. The topics also include cross-cultural notes and proverbs.
Twelve essays drawn from chapters in the The Rivers Handbook describing river organisms and their taxa, adaptions, ecologies, and trophic interactions. The contributing scholars consider the principles, practice, and problems entailed in making reliable observation, the ways in which river biota are impacted by human activity, and how this information can be used as indicators to effect river management. The volume is suitable as a reference, or a text for post-graduate students. Includes illustrations. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR