Author: Nyamfowa Kasahorow
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499366358
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Start exploring the English-language world with the help of Gikuyu! The Modern Gikuyu Dictionary is an explorer's dictionary for English and Gikuyu bilinguals to understand difficult English texts. Contains over 500 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern African English language book. Look up unfamiliar English words and get an example sentence of its usage in Gikuyu. Discover the joy of learning new things in English with help from Gikuyu. Suitable for everyone 12 years old and older.
Modern Gikuyu Dictionary
Author: Nyamfowa Kasahorow
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499366358
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Start exploring the English-language world with the help of Gikuyu! The Modern Gikuyu Dictionary is an explorer's dictionary for English and Gikuyu bilinguals to understand difficult English texts. Contains over 500 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern African English language book. Look up unfamiliar English words and get an example sentence of its usage in Gikuyu. Discover the joy of learning new things in English with help from Gikuyu. Suitable for everyone 12 years old and older.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781499366358
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Start exploring the English-language world with the help of Gikuyu! The Modern Gikuyu Dictionary is an explorer's dictionary for English and Gikuyu bilinguals to understand difficult English texts. Contains over 500 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern African English language book. Look up unfamiliar English words and get an example sentence of its usage in Gikuyu. Discover the joy of learning new things in English with help from Gikuyu. Suitable for everyone 12 years old and older.
Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary
Author: Kasahorow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781671699205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Learn to read Modern Gikuyu (Kikuyu, Meru)!The Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary for your multilingual child to develop their Gikuyu and English reading skills.Contains over 200 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Gikuyu language book.Discover the joy of reading in Gikuyu and English together with your multilingual child.Suitable for children 12 years old and older.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781671699205
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Learn to read Modern Gikuyu (Kikuyu, Meru)!The Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary for your multilingual child to develop their Gikuyu and English reading skills.Contains over 200 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Gikuyu language book.Discover the joy of reading in Gikuyu and English together with your multilingual child.Suitable for children 12 years old and older.
Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary
Author: Nyamfowa Kasahorow
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494824341
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Learn to read Modern Gikuyu (Kikuyu, Meru)! The Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary for your multilingual child to develop their Gikuyu and English reading skills. Contains over 200 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Gikuyu language book. Discover the joy of reading in Gikuyu and English together with your multilingual child. Suitable for children 12 years old and older.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494824341
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Learn to read Modern Gikuyu (Kikuyu, Meru)! The Gikuyu Learner's Dictionary is a beginner's dictionary for your multilingual child to develop their Gikuyu and English reading skills. Contains over 200 nouns, verbs and adjectives to aid fast comprehension of any Modern Gikuyu language book. Discover the joy of reading in Gikuyu and English together with your multilingual child. Suitable for children 12 years old and older.
Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches
Author: Benedetto
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810866293
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches contains information on the major personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810866293
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches contains information on the major personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches.
Dictionary of Languages
Author: Andrew Dalby
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408102145
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408102145
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Kinyĩra Njĩra!
Author: Chege Githiora
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9781592212019
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book presents 18 peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 2000. The lead essay urges African linguistics to move in step with the practical development of the African languages as part of the decolonisation struggle. The core areas of theoretical linguistics represented in the book are morpho-syntax, phonetics-phonology and semantics-pragmatics.
Publisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9781592212019
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
This book presents 18 peer-reviewed and revised papers from the 31st Annual Conference on African Linguistics, 2000. The lead essay urges African linguistics to move in step with the practical development of the African languages as part of the decolonisation struggle. The core areas of theoretical linguistics represented in the book are morpho-syntax, phonetics-phonology and semantics-pragmatics.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Imperial Histories
Author: John Marriott
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317042522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement, and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces - studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline. These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the structures which sustained their lives and their livelihoods. Overall, the companion emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process. Comprehensive in its scope, it draws attention to the particularities of individual empires, rather than over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and in all places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and historical specificity that enables us to explore in expansive ways precisely what constituted the modern empire.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317042522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 759
Book Description
Written by leading scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of modern empires. Spanning the era of modern imperial history from the early sixteenth century to the present, it challenges both the rather insular focuses on specific experiences, and gives due attention to imperial formations outside the West including the Russian, Japanese, Mughal, Ottoman and Chinese. The companion is divided into three broad sections. Part I - Times - surveys the three main eras of modern imperialism. The first was that dominated by the settlement impulse, with migrants - many voluntarily and many more by force - making new lives in the colonies. This impulse gave way, most especially in the nineteenth century, to a period of busy and rapid expansion which was less likely to promote new settlement, and in which colonists more frequently saw their sojourn in colonial lands as temporary and related to the business mostly of governance and trade. Lastly, in the twentieth century in particular, empires began to fail and to fall. Part II - Spaces - studies the principal imperial formations of the modern world. Each chapter charts the experience of a specific empire while at the same time placing it within the complex patterns of wider imperial constellations. The individual chapters thus survey the broad dynamics of change within the empires themselves and their relationships with other imperial formations, and reflect critically on the ways in which these topics have been approached in the literature. In Part III - Themes - scholars think critically about some of the key features of imperial expansion and decline. These chapters are brief and many are provocative. They reflect the current state of the field, and suggest new lines of inquiry which may follow from more comparative perspectives on empire. The broad range of themes captures the vitality and diversity of contemporary scholarship on questions of empire and colonialism, encompassing political, economic and cultural processes central to the formation and maintenance of empires as well as institutions, ideologies and social categories that shaped the lives both of those implementing and those experiencing the force of empire. In these pages the reader will find the slave and the criminal, the merchant and the maid, the scientist and the artist alongside the structures which sustained their lives and their livelihoods. Overall, the companion emphasises the diversity of imperial experience and process. Comprehensive in its scope, it draws attention to the particularities of individual empires, rather than over-generalising as if all empires, at all times, and in all places, behaved in a similar manner. It is this contingent and historical specificity that enables us to explore in expansive ways precisely what constituted the modern empire.
Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa
Author: Sergio Baldi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004438483
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Following the publication in 2008 of Dictionnaire des emprunts arabes dans les langues de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et en Swahili, Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa completes and offers the results of over 20 years of research on Arabic loanwords. The volume reveals the impact Arabic has had on African languages far beyond the area of its direct influence. As in the previous volume, the author analyses the loans in the greatest possible number of languages spoken in the area, based on the publications he found in the most important libraries of the main universities and academic institutions specialised in the field. By suggesting the most frequently used Arabic loanwords, the dictionary will be an invaluable guide to African-language lexicon compilers, amongst others.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004438483
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Following the publication in 2008 of Dictionnaire des emprunts arabes dans les langues de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et en Swahili, Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa completes and offers the results of over 20 years of research on Arabic loanwords. The volume reveals the impact Arabic has had on African languages far beyond the area of its direct influence. As in the previous volume, the author analyses the loans in the greatest possible number of languages spoken in the area, based on the publications he found in the most important libraries of the main universities and academic institutions specialised in the field. By suggesting the most frequently used Arabic loanwords, the dictionary will be an invaluable guide to African-language lexicon compilers, amongst others.
THE NEW KIKAMBA - ENGLISH DICTIONARY
Author: Joseph Kibwaa
Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1943265755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This dictionary book is an attempt to try to preserve the Kamba community language, customs and culture through words and their meanings. Even though some words do have same spellings, their pronunciations are different, which then makes them have more than one meaning, as it is carefully demonstrated in this book. It is also notably observed that the Kamba people whose language is Kikamba uses five vowels, which are A E I I O U U out of the twenty-six alphabetical letters commonly used in the dictionary internationally.
Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN: 1943265755
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
This dictionary book is an attempt to try to preserve the Kamba community language, customs and culture through words and their meanings. Even though some words do have same spellings, their pronunciations are different, which then makes them have more than one meaning, as it is carefully demonstrated in this book. It is also notably observed that the Kamba people whose language is Kikamba uses five vowels, which are A E I I O U U out of the twenty-six alphabetical letters commonly used in the dictionary internationally.
Dictionary of African Biography
Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195382072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 3382
Book Description
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).
Publisher:
ISBN: 0195382072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 3382
Book Description
From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).