Dictionnaire ngiemboon–français–anglais

Ngiemboon–French–English Dictionary

Compiled by: Etienne Lonfo, Stephen C. Anderson. Series edited by: Roger M. Blench.

Series: KWEF Kay Williamson Educational Foundation – African Languages Monographs Volume 7

Ngiemboon is spoken by about 100,000 people, mainly in the department Bamboutos in the Western Region of Cameroon. It is a Grassfields Bantu language belonging to the group Bamiléké with more than 250,000 speakers.

This dictionary includes an introduction that presents the principle components, a phonological description, orthographic information, an abridged grammatical description, 2 maps, 85 colour photos and annexes with information about people and the region.

The dictionary itself comprises approximately 6,200 main entries, 600 secondary inputs (derived forms), 7,700 definitions in both English and French, 1,250 example sentences, 800 dialects, 650 referrals, 200 loans and 100 drawings.

The dictionary also includes a French-Ngiemboon language index of about 7,650 entries, an English-Ngiemboon language index of about 8,000, and an index of 575 scientific names of plants and animals.

The following analyses, dictionaries and text collections of Bantu and Grassfields Bantu langues are also available in our programme:

Accompanying material:

• A Descriptive Grammar of Bafut (ISBN 978-3-89645-551-2)
• A Descriptive Grammar of Bangwà (ISBN 978-3-89645-563-5)
• A Grammatical Description of Metta (Cameroon) in Relation to Focus Parametric Variation (ISBN 978-3-89645-544-4)
• A Pedagogic Grammar of Babanki (ISBN 978-3-89645-558-1)
• Akum, Ala’atening and Mankon: Dialects or Languages? (ISBN 978-3-89645-562-8)
• Analyse contrastive des parlers Yémba du département de la Ménoua de l’Ouest-Cameroun (ISBN 978-3-89645-046-3)
• Bankon (A40) (ISBN 978-3-89645-030-2)
• Engagement with Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-768-4)
• Grammaire descriptive du pólrì (ISBN 978-3-89645-567-3)
• Lamnso’-English Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-89645-429-4)
• Mòkpè (Bakweri) – English Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-33-9)
• Mungaka (Bali) Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-30-8)
• Research Mate in African Linguistics – Focus on Cameroon (ISBN 978-3-89645-041-8)
• Structural and Typological Approaches to Obang Grammar (ISBN 978-3-89645-568-0)
• Verbal Serialisation in Isu (West Ring) (ISBN 978-3-89645-555-0)

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