A Dictionary of the Nandi Language

Author: Chet A. Creider, Jane Tapsubei Creider. Series edited by: M. Lionel Bender †, Franz Rottland †, Norbert Cyffer.

Series: NISA Nilo-Saharan – Studies in Language and Context Volume 16

2001
398 pp.
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
640 g
Paperback
€ 69.80

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Nandi is a language spoken in the highlands of western Kenya. The Nandi and speakers of related languages and dialects are collectively known as the Kalenjin peoples. Their languages belong to the southern Nilotic branch among the Nilo-Saharan languages. The Kalenjin languages are as yet hardly documented and thus the present book represents the first comprehensive dictionary in the field of Kalenjin languages. Its aim is especially to document the traditional vocabulary, which is threatened by oblivion.

The book continues to employ the standard orthography which is used in informal written discourse, despite the inherent deficiencies. For the benefit of the non-native user an additional phonemic orthography is offered which closely follows the colloquial pronunciation of the lexical items.

Following a short introductory chapter dealing with orthography and phonology the rest of the book contains the Nandi-English and English-Nandi vocabulary. Every item is provided with extensive phonological, tonological and morphological information, as well as an illustrative phrase or sentence.

Following the links below you will find further monographs and paper collections on Nilo-Saharan / Nilotic and Kalenjin languages.

Accompanying material:

• Cherang’any (ISBN 978-3-89645-666-3)
• Cherangany–English and English–Cherangany Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-224-5)
• Räumliche Orientierung in nilotischen Sprachen (ISBN 978-3-89645-661-8)

Cross-reference:

• „Mehr als nur Worte ...” (ISBN 978-3-89645-125-5)
• Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-140-8)
• Afrikanische Sprachen im Brennpunkt der Forschung (ISBN 978-3-89645-121-7)
• APAL Annual Publication in African Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-501-7)
• Encoding Motion – Case Studies from Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-505-5)
• Historical Language Contact in Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-091-3)
• Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture (ISBN 978-3-89645-660-1)
• Proceedings of the 6th WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Cologne, 17-21 August 2009 (ISBN 978-3-89645-199-6)
• The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic (ISBN 978-3-89645-139-2)

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