37.3538, Books: A Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch of Beja (Sudan): Vanhove and Hamid-Ahmed (2026)

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Date: 27-Oct-2026
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [support at langsci-press.org]
Subject: A Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch of Beja (Sudan): Vanhove and Hamid-Ahmed (2026)


Title: A Dictionary and Grammatical Sketch of Beja (Sudan)
Series Title: African Language Grammars and Dictionaries
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Language Science Press
           http://langsci-press.org
Book URL:
https://langsci-press.org/index.php/LangSci-Press/catalog/book/603

Author(s): Martine Vanhove, Mohamed-Tahir Hamid-Ahmed

eBook

Abstract:

This book contains a Beja-English-French dictionary, the first one to
focus on the central and southern varieties of this Cushitic language
as spoken in eastern Sudan, an appendix of clitics and affixes, an
English-Beja reversal index, a French-Beja reversal index, and a
grammatical sketch. The dictionary and its appendices contain over
8,000 entries and sub-entries. It is the largest dictionary on this
language, and the sole one which is systematically organized by roots
(the alphabetical order considers consonants and vowels), with all
their variants and derived forms (also cross-referenced
alphabetically). Lemmas contain the base form and all the derived
forms of a root with all relevant information about parts of speech,
verb categories, gender, source of loan words, etymologies,
morphological, grammatical, sociolinguistic, encyclopaedic
information, synonyms, antonyms, and examples. Literal translations of
compound words and examples are provided when needed. Stress, tone,
and phonetic forms are only mentioned when unpredictable from the
rules mentioned in the grammatical sketch. The grammatical sketch
contains sections on phonology, morphology (including compounds,
evaluative morphology, and interjections), TAM (including verbal
complex predicates), elements of syntax (including complex
utterances), and information and discourse structures. This work is
mainly intended as a resource for linguists, in particular specialist
of Cushitic and Semitic languages, and can also serve as a resource
for speakers and learners of Beja.

Linguistic Field(s): Typology

Subject Language(s): Beja (bej, beja1238)

Written In: English (eng, stan1293)


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