23.2100, Books: A Dictionary of the Suahili Language: Krapf (Ed)

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Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 12:57:58
From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: A Dictionary of the Suahili Language: Krapf (Ed)

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Title: A Dictionary of the Suahili Language 
Subtitle: With Introduction Containing an Outline of a Suahili Grammar 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Editor: Johan Ludwig Krapf

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108047036 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108047036 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 35.99

Abstract:

Johan Ludwig Krapf (1810-81), a German-born member of the Church 
Missionary Society in East Africa, is regarded as the founder of Swahili studies 
in Europe. Having pursued an interest in Oriental culture from an early age, he 
first went to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) as a missionary. During his travels in Africa, 
he became the first European to see Mount Kenya; but he also considered the 
potential of Swahili as a lingua franca. Krapf published the first printed text in 
Swahili, and the first systematic Swahili grammar, as well as being the first to 
bring Swahili manuscripts to Europe. Another in a series of firsts is this lexicon, 
which was published posthumously in 1882. The Swahili dictionary, pioneering 
as it was in its day, is still of historical interest, especially because it contains 
notes on Swahili culture and customs, as well as an outline of the language's 
grammar. 

Introduction
Preface
An outline of grammar of the Suahili language
A Suahili-English dictionary. 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography

Subject Language(s): Swahili (swh)

Written In: English  (eng)

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