We learn Kanuri (Textbook and Audio-CD)

Author: Norbert Cyffer. In collaboration with: Umara Bulakarima, Yaganami Karta. Illustrated by: Bernd Gimbel. Series edited by: Wilhelm J.G. Möhlig †, Bernd Heine.

Series: Study Books of African Languages Volume 2 + 20

1991
376 pp.
108 illustrations
Text language(s): English
Format: 170 x 230 mm
890 g
Paperback
€ 69.80

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The Kanuri language is one of the major languages in central Africa. It is spoken by more than four million people in the Lake Chad region. Most speakers live in Borno in north-eastern Nigeria and in the eastern parts of Niger, partly also in the Fezzan region of Libya. The Kanuri language together with Teda-Daza and Zaghawa, including the defunct Berti language, form the Saharan language family which is a member of the Nilo-Saharan phylum.

The dialect used in this course refers to the speech form of Maiduguri which is recognized as the standard form in Nigeria. The manual consists of 30 lessons, each comprising a dialogue, a grammar section, translation parts, several exercises and drills, and a vocabulary section. An appendix gives the keys to the exercises, the translation of the texts, and a vocabulary as well as a grammatical index. Numerous illustrations show the Kanuri material culture.

In completion of the textbook audio-material on a Audio-CD is included, read by Nigerian mother-tongue speakers. Both parts are also available separately:

Accompanying material:

• A Sketch of Kanuri (ISBN 978-3-89645-032-6)
• Advances in Kanuri Scholarship (ISBN 978-3-89645-104-0)
• English–Kanuri Dictionary (ISBN 978-3-927620-44-5)
• Kanuri, Borno and Beyond (ISBN 978-3-89645-892-6)
• Reference Grammar of Kanuri (Nigeria) (ISBN 978-3-89645-670-0)

Cross-reference:

• Aspects of Co- and Subordination (ISBN 978-3-89645-888-9)
• We learn Kanuri (Audio-CD) (ISBN 978-3-89645-577-2)
• We learn Kanuri (Lehrbuch / Textbook) (ISBN 978-3-927620-01-8)
• When Languages Meet (ISBN 978-3-89645-257-3)

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