Kinyamwezi

Grammar, Texts, Vocabulary

Author: Clement Maganga †, Thilo C. Schadeberg. Series edited by: Bernd Heine, Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †.

Series: EALD East African Languages and Dialects Volume 1

1992
325 pp.
glossary
Text language(s): English
Format: 155 x 230 mm
580 g
Paperback
€ 69.80

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Kinyamwezi is a Bantu language (F.22) of Western Tanzania and the mother tongue of at least one million people. There does not seem to be any strict linguistic border which would separate it from its northern neighbour Kisukuma. Speakers are aware of this dialect continuum, but recognize that Nyamwezi and Sukuma are two distinct ethnic identities, each with its own language. The dialect described here is the variety of Kinyamwezi spoken in the area of Ndala (Nzega District), and the mother tongue of one of the authors.

The book deals with the phonology, tonology and morphology. It consists of 5 parts: Part 1 introduces in detail the consonant and the vowel inventory and also the tonal system. Parts 2 and 3 discuss inflectional and derivational morphology. Part 4 presents a collection of texts with a close interlinear translation, and part 5 consists of a vocabulary Kinyamwezi-English/ English-Kinyamwezi (see complete table of contents at the bottom).

Following the links below you will find further manuscripts by the author or texts edited by him:

Cross-reference:

• A Sketch of Swahili Morphology (ISBN 978-3-927620-16-2)
• A Sketch of Umbundu (ISBN 978-3-927620-15-5)
• Ekoti (ISBN 978-3-89645-025-8)
• Nuba Mountain Language Studies (ISBN 978-3-89645-427-0)
• Tira and Otoro (ISBN 978-3-89645-173-6)

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