Kinyarwanda is spoken all across Rwanda. Despite the whole the basically speaking the same language. There exists some slight difference in saying things and pronouncing words. This is our attempt at showing a more general view to the language. It is meant to be a tool for young children and people who want to have an initial introduction to Kinyarwanda.
Runyankore is a Bantu language spoken by people in South West Uganda. Rukiga language is a similar and partially mutually intelligible with the Runyankore language. It is spoken by the people in Kigezi region. Some people argue that because the two languages are so similar, they consider them dialects of the same language, hence the term Runyankore-Rukiga. Whilst a very old language, the written literature is still not common place. There are very few (illustrated) children’s books for young ones to learn the language. That is why I have created this simple picture dictionary. The book aims to help one pick up vocabulary and has some simple sentences that can be used in commonly encountered scenarios in daily living. This can help one to make comfortable introductions and simple conversations. Children learn in a playful manner. Included are some beautiful childhood songs, rhymes and games. I hope this book will stimulate parents to introduce the language to their children early in life when learning languages is easiest. Scan this QR code to join in for the songs and rhymes in this book.
Kinyarwanda is spoken all across Rwanda. Despite the whole the basically speaking the same language. There exists some slight difference in saying things and pronouncing words. This is our attempt at showing a more general view to the language. It is meant to be a tool for young children and people who want to have an initial introduction to Kinyarwanda.
This book was born from a deep desire to learn a language that is so fascinating. The buzz of daily life coupled with expatriation and living abroad means that I don’t get adequate time for focused input to allow facilitated learning. I love reading and have passed this passion for books to my children. It is my desire to make reading resources available to use together with my kids but also for those interested in learning or teaching the language to their children. This book introduces the children to common items in everyday scenarios that they are likely to encounter. I hope that it will stimulate parents to use in their interactions with children as they learn this exciting new language. The word “pwonya” means teach me. It expresses a desire to learn, and every student needs a teacher. Wapwony Acoli: Let’s Learn Acoli is the first of the mother tongue series of books and resources to facilitate the learning of some mother tongue languages of interest. I hope that you will enjoy reading it to your children, playing with and using all the words and expressions daily to help increase confidence in learning and speaking the Acoli language.
A Grammar of Eton is the first description of the Cameroonian Bantu language Eton. It is also one of the few complete descriptions of a North-western Bantu language. The complex tonology of Eton is carefully analysed and presented in a simple and consistent descriptive framework, which permits the reader to keep track of Eton's many tonal morphemes. Phonologists will be especially interested in the analysis of stem initial prominence, which manifests itself in a number of logically independent phenomena, including length of the onset consonant, phonotactic skewing and number of tonal attachment sites. Typologists and Africanists working on morphosyntax will find useful analyses of, among others, gender and agreement; tense, aspect, mood and negation; and verbal derivation. They will encounter many morphosyntactic differences between Eton and the better known Eastern and Southern Bantu languages, often due to evolutions shaped by maximality constraints on stems. The chapters on clause structure and complex constructions provide data hardly found in sources on the languages of the region, including descriptions of non-verbal clauses, focus, quasi-auxiliaries and adverbial clauses.
