Sasi Dictionary (Botswana)

Sasi–English–Setswana / English–Sasi

Author: Chris Collins. Series edited by: Rainer Voßen.

Series: QKF Research in Khoisan Studies Volume 39

2024
115 pp.
Text language(s): English
Format: 170 x 240 mm
250 g
Paperback
€ 39.80

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Sasi is a language whose speakers are found in eastern Botswana in and around Mokgenene, Poloka and nearby cattle posts and farms (as of 2024). The speakers themselves refer to the language as ŋǃaˤa. It is mutually intelligible with ǂHoan. Together with ǂHoan, it forms the ǂʔAmkoe branch of Kx’a. For a preliminary grammatical description of Sasi, and a discussion of its relation to ǂHoan, see Collins and Gruber 2014 (vol. 32 of the same Khoisan series, see the link below).

The dictionary has nearly 1,400 entries many of which have multiple senses. Each entry has both an English and a Setswana (S.31) gloss. Most of the entries have example phrases and sentences. A short reverse English-Sasi dictionary follows the Sasi-English-Setswana dictionary. The dictionary is based on around 32,000 sound files recorded on Praat using a Zoom H4n recorder as an audio-interface (sampling rate 44,100Hz). Each sound file contains a word (usually repeated two or three times), or a phrase used as an example in a lexical entry. Each word has been recorded with multiple speakers, usually both men and women. The sound files are available upon request to the author. The dictionary is also based on 3.5 hours of transcribed oral texts collected, transcribed and translated during the academic year 2019-2020.

Under these links you will find publications by Chris Collins, descriptions of further Khoisan languages and cultures of southern Africa and a couple of analyses and dictionaries of Setswana:

Accompanying material:

• A Grammar of #Hoa [ǂHȍã] (ISBN 978-3-89645-876-6)
• A Grammatical Sketch of Kuasi (Botswana) (ISBN 978-3-89645-882-7)
• A Grammatical Sketch of N/uuki [N|uuki] with Stories (ISBN 978-3-89645-865-0)
• A Trilingual !Xóõ Dictionary — !Xóõ – English – Setswana (ISBN 978-3-89645-881-0)
• Ethnographie des Sprachwechsels (ISBN 978-3-927620-25-4)
• Issues in Bantu Tonology (ISBN 978-3-89645-033-3)
• Khoisan Languages and Linguistics – 4th Symposium 2011 (ISBN 978-3-89645-880-3)
• Khoisan Languages and Linguistics – 5th Symposium 2014 (ISBN 978-3-89645-878-0)

Cross-reference:

• „Mehr als nur Worte ...” (ISBN 978-3-89645-125-5)
• A Concise Dictionary of Northwestern !Xun (ISBN 978-3-89645-149-1)
• A Concise Grammar of Ju/'hoan [Ju|’hoan] (ISBN 978-3-89645-145-3)
• Beyond the Language Issue (ISBN 978-3-89645-819-3)
• Eastern and Southern African Khoisan (ISBN 978-3-89645-142-2)
• Linguistics across Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-510-9)
• Lone Tree – Scholarship in the Service of the Koon (ISBN 978-3-89645-227-6)
• Namibian Languages (ISBN 978-3-89645-080-7)
• Proceedings of the 2nd WOCAL World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig 1997 (ISBN 978-3-89645-124-8)
• The !Xun Language (ISBN 978-3-89645-877-3)
• The Complete Linguist (ISBN 978-3-927620-84-1)

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