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A Grammar of Kenya Luo (Dholuo)
Author: Archibald Norman Tucker †. Edited by: Chet A. Creider. In collaboration with: E.D. Jakeyo Ang’ina, T. Okelo Odongo, J.N. Olum Oludhe. Series edited by: M. Lionel Bender †, Franz Rottland †.
Series: NISA Nilo-Saharan – Studies in Language and Context Volume 8
1994626 pp.
2 volumes
Text language(s): English
Format: 160 x 240 mm
1300 g
Paperback
€ 98.00
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The Luo language (Dholuo) stands at the extreme southern end of the extensive linguistic unit known as Nilotic languages. With about 3.4 million speakers, Luo is one of the most important Kenyan languages.
Under these links you will find descriptions of further Nilotic languages and cultures:
Accompanying material:
- A Bibliography of the Maa Language and the Maasai People
(ISBN 978-3-89645-710-3 ) - A Dictionary of the Nandi Language
(ISBN 978-3-89645-134-7 ) - A Functional Grammar of Dholuo
(ISBN 978-3-89645-130-9 ) - A Grammar of Belanda Boor
(ISBN 978-3-89645-664-9 ) - Anywa Language
(ISBN 978-3-927620-73-5 ) - Anywa-English and English-Anywa Dictionary
(ISBN 978-3-89645-132-3 ) - Cherang’any
(ISBN 978-3-89645-666-3 ) - Cherangany–English and English–Cherangany Dictionary
(ISBN 978-3-89645-224-5 ) - Motion in Datooga
(ISBN 978-3-89645-668-7 ) - Räumliche Orientierung in nilotischen Sprachen
(ISBN 978-3-89645-661-8 ) - The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic
(ISBN 978-3-89645-139-2 )
Cross-reference:
- „Mehr als nur Worte ...”
(ISBN 978-3-89645-125-5 ) - Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics
(ISBN 978-3-89645-140-8 ) - Current Research in Nilo-Saharan
(ISBN 978-3-89645-669-4 ) - Die südlichen Lwoo-Sprachen
(ISBN 978-3-89645-137-8 ) - Insights into Nilo-Saharan Language, History and Culture
(ISBN 978-3-89645-660-1 ) - Maasai Diviners and Christianity
(ISBN 978-3-89645-761-5 ) - Nilo-Saharan – Models and Descriptions
(ISBN 978-3-89645-665-6 ) - Nilo-Saharan Issues and Perspectives
(ISBN 978-3-89645-667-0 )
Reviews
Die posthume Veröffentlichtung von A.N. Tuckers zwischen 1960 und 1980 entstandener Beschreibung dieser Sprache durch Chet Creider stellt [...] eine unschätzbare Bereicherung dar. Drei Faktoren sind es vor allem, die zu dieser Einschätzung führen: der Datenreichtum, die genaue Tonmarkierung aller Beispiele und das etwa 2.400 Einträge umfassende, ebenfalls durchgängig tonmarkierte Dholuo-Englisch/Englisch-Dholuo-Wörterverzeichnis.
Mechthild Reh in Afrika und Übersee, 78/1995, 299–301
The publication of Tucker’s A Grammar of Kenya Luo (Dholuo) is a welcome event. GKL is the first detailed reference grammar of the language, commonly referred to these days as Dholuo. GKL’s publication came fourteen years after the author’s death. Tucker worked on the grammar, on and off, for two decades, but did not live to see it in publishable form. Chet Creider undertook the ardous task of getting the complex manuscript into a form suitable for publication, and for this he is to be congratulated since the result is a work that will be of considerable interest to specialists on Dholuo and Nilotic languages. [...]
For non-specialists, its utility will depend on the degree to which users are willing to spend time working out answers to questions themselves from the great fund of illustrative material.
Michael Noonan in Journal of African Languages and Linguistics, 19-2/1998, 181–183
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