Author/Publisher: Fathers of St. Joseph's Society Publication date: 1921 Number of pages: 70 (136) Kenyan Luo (also known as "Dholuo") belongs to the Luo grouping within the Western Nilotic grouping of the Nilo-Saharan language family. It is spoken by the Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, numbering about 3 million, who occupy parts of the eastern shore of Lake Victoria and...
Author: Fathers of St. Joseph's Society. Publisher: Caxton Printing & Publishing Works, Nairobi. Publication date: 1921. Number of pages: 70 (136). Учебник языка кавирондо / долуо (на англ. яз.) Phonology, Morphology and Verb Tenses. Formation, Remarks and Syntax. Phrase Book. Exercises. Kavirondo, or Dholuo is the eponymous dialect of the Luo group of Nilotic languages, spoken...
Author/Publisher: Fathers of St. Joseph's Society Publication date: 1921 Format / Quality: MP3 / 64kkps Kenyan Luo (also known as "Dholuo") belongs to the Luo grouping within the Western Nilotic grouping of the Nilo-Saharan language family. It is spoken by the Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania, numbering about 3 million, who occupy parts of the eastern shore of Lake Victoria and...
Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. — 2009. — Vol. 30. Issue 2. — p. 147-191. Surkum and other languages belonging to the Northern Burun branch of Western Nilotic have a word-final verbal suffix (with several allomorphs) which does not contribute to the propositional content of the sentence. It is obligatory in, for instance, affirmative declarative clauses with the...
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Publication date: 2008
Number of pages: 276
ISBN: 2296056954
Le lecteur est invité à s'initier à la langue parlée, non seulement par les Karimojong d'Ouganda, mais également, avec quelques variations dialectales, par les autres peuples que les ethnologues appellent les "Paranilotes du centre": les Dodos et les Jie d'Ouganda, les Turkana du Kenya, les...
C.A. Capen, 1998. — 336 p. The lexical entry of a bilingual dictionary contains various types of information abaut the entry word. In all cases, it contains the word itself,the part of speech and a lexical equivalent (gloss) in the other language.
Trieste : Universita di Trieste u.a., 1991. — 257 p.
This is a grammar and dictionary of the Lango language, a Nilotic language spoken by the Langi people of Uganda.
The Sara Language Project. — Morkeg Books, 2015. — 154 p. A short Ngambay-French dictionary with illustrative sentences. Ngambay is spoken in the Chad republic and is the most populous of the Sra languages with about a milliion speakers.
Helmut Buske Verlag, 1989. — 172 p. — (Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic Analyses and Documentation 4). Nandi is a language spoken in the highlands of western Kenya. The Nandi and speakers of related languages and dialects are collectively known as the Kalenjin peoples. Their languages belong to the southern Nilotic branch among the Nilo-Saharan languages.
John Benjamins, 2009. — 409 p. Whereas Africa as a typological area is often associated with extensive verb morphology and verb serialization, this collection of studies shows that there is tremendous typological diversity at the clausal level. Verb serialization in the Khoisan area contrasts with extensive case-marking in languages of northeastern Africa, which also use...
Foris Publications, 1983. — 493 p. — (Publications in African Languages and Linguistics 2). Phonology Sentence Structure The Verb and its Functions The Noun Phrase Adjuncts Extended and Derived Sentences Contrastive Emphasis Question and Negation Defective Verb Paradigms
Northwestern University Press, 1971. — 224 p. Southern Nilotic history, like the history of many other African peoples, lacks documents or historical traditions for all but the most recent centuries. It hardly needs reiterating that the historian has numerous other kinds of evidence on which he can draw. Yet such evidence has previously been utilized in so unsystematic and...
Lulu, 2010. — 24 p. Turkana Alphabet contains a comprehensive list of grouped and alphabetically organized letters of the alphabet for The Turkana Language. The book briefly explains Turkana phonology with IPA transcription to assist learners pronounce characters correctly. General rules of naming alphabet letters in The Turkana Language and Turkana alphabet elements; vowels,...
Publisher: University of New York
Publication date: 1999
Number of pages: 149
Nuer is a language spoken in southern Sudan. It is, along with Dinka, its closest relative, a member of the Western Nilotic branch of Nilo-Saharan languages. The dialect of Nuer that will be investigated in this paper is Eastern Nuer1, specifically such as is spoken in Nasir, Sudan, near
the...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2010. — 109 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 1). The relatively sparse rainfall in northeastern Uganda supports a pastoralist economy, and most people also raise crops to supplement their diet that centers around meat, milk, and blood from cattle. Even after independence in 1962, most Ugandan governments...
Dietrich Reimer, 1980. — 232 p. — (Language and dialect atlas of Kenya 2). Part 1: A Survey - Language structures in Kenya - A survey of the non-Bantu languages Part 2: Linguistic data - Turkana - Camus, a Maa dialect - Munyo, an Oromo dialect - Elmolo - Rendille
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 1989. — 313 p. The aim of this grammar is to be a serious study of the Pokot language, which has been studied very little up to now. It explains the structures of the language, its characteristics and its forms, and will enable the reader to understand the way the Pokot language functions. The language in itself appears complicated because of the...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2012. — 120 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 5). Metrical structures: A neglected property of Nilotic (and other African language families) - Dimmendaal Gerrit On the rise of ergative structures in Africa - Christa König Complementation and evidential strategy in Acooli - Osamu Hieda A peculiar personal...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2011. — 120 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 3). The Nilotic languages are usually divided into a Western group (containing such languages as Acholi, Burun, Dinka, Lango, Luo, Mabaan, Nuer, and Shilluk), an Eastern group (including Bari, Karimojong, Lotuxo, Maa [the language of the Maasai people], Teso,...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2010. — 145 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 2). Anne Storch - Morphosyntax of Luwo Beatrix von Heyking - The noun morphology of Belanda Boor Christa Konig - Aspect in Labwor Osamu Hieda - Complementation in Kumam Kazuhiro Kawachi - Distinction between two types of location (the location of an object and the...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2014. — 134 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 8). Attitude markers in Nilotic: a cross-linguistic perspective - Gerrit J. Dimmendaal Number in Nilotic: a hypothetical consideration from historical perspective - Osamu Hieda Grammaticalization of Já 'come' and rúwa 'go' in Juba Arabic - Shuichiro Nakao Number in...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2013. — 383 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 7). Kumam is a language in the southern Lwo group of Western Nilotic, a branch of the Nilotic languages, which form a large group among the members of the Nilo-Saharan phylum.
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2011. — 428 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 4). Kumam is a language in the southern Lwo group of Western Nilotic, a branch of the Nilotic languages, which form a large group among the members of the Nilo-Saharan phylum.
1957. — 102 p.
Ateso (from Teso) is a Nilo-Saharan language, spoken by the Iteso people of Uganda and Kenya. It is one of the Teso–Turkana cluster of languages.
According to the 2002 Uganda population and housing census, over 1.57 million people (6.7% of the total Uganda population) in Uganda spoke Ateso. Also an estimated 279,000 people in Kenya speak it. Its SIL code is TEO....
Cambridge University Press, 1901. — 98 p. The Maasai grammar allows you to manipulate the vocabulary to obtain multiple forms of a word. The grammatical rules below are the most important in Maasai and help connect words or shape the structure. Maasai (Masai) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about...
Stellenbosch University, 2018. — 353 p. This study investigated issues pertaining to the properties of verbal affixes in Parakuyo that give rise to different realizations of the external and internal arguments. The study examines a range of argument realizations and alternation licensed by verbs with specific lexical-semantic, event semantic and morpho-syntactic properties...
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1953. — 145 p. Христианский молитвенник на языке бари. Karin: Kwaset lo Ko'bure. Kwaset lo Koriri. Litani. Kwasesi ka'de ka'de. Kwasesi se ko Letajin ko Lonio Lo'but Logon a Saraki Temba i Kina. Kulya ti Nyeit na Matat Likan Koti Lunu a Momoret Nake. Batiset Nake na Lupudiet. Batiset Nake na Nutu Logon a Temejik ko Bubulo...
Publisher: SOCIETY lOR I'KOMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
Publication date: 1915
Number of pages: 145
The Ateso dialect is spoken by a tribe ot" some 300,000 people living between Lake Kioga and Mt. Elgon in the Eastern Province of the Uganda Protectorate. The Teso are a cheerful, industrious people, amenable to control and eminently teachable. Although now for some six years...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2015. — 182 p. — (Asian and African lexicon 58). — ISBN 987-4-86337-184-2. A grammar of the endangered south Nilotic Akie language, spoken in Tanzania.
E-book, PCV, July 2009. — 258 p. Куль Б., Бак Э., Джоффе М. Учебник языка ачоли (на англ. яз.) Greetings. Simple Present Tense. Introducing Self and Others. Verb Infinitive, Near Future Tense. Foods. Adjectives, Gerunds. Shopping. Near Past. Telling Time. Adverbs of Time. Community Integration. The Passive. Transport. Conditionals. Know Your Body. Reflexive Verbs. Family. Far...
Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. — 82 p. — ISBN: 978-3846546567. Kinandi („kutitab Nandi‟ (= the „tongue‟ of the Nandi)) is a dialect of the Kaleenjiin language group who live on the highlands west of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. They mainly inhabit the counties of Nandi, Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia. The latest national census puts the population of the Kaleenjiin as...
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER
Publication date: 2007
Number of pages: 148
A study of ATR harmony patterns indicates that a serial derivation model best accounts for the surface forms of Karimojong verbs. Five affix types in verbal complexes in the language may undergo harmony, trigger it or remain neutral, resulting in three separate harmony domains:...
Editeur: L'Harmattan Publication Date: 2005 Number of pages: 199 ISBN: 2-7475-8271-X Les Massaïs sont très célèbres auprès des touristes qui visitent le Kenya ou la Tanzanie. L'objectif principal de ce livre est de donner accès à leur langue et à leur culture. La conversation courante et le vocabulaire des lexiques répondent aux besoins des visiteurs qui profiteront de la...
Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005. — (Parlons). — ISBN: 2-7475-8271-X. MP3 / 192 kbps. Les Massaïs sont très célèbres auprès des touristes qui visitent le Kenya ou la Tanzanie. L'objectif principal de ce livre est de donner accès à leur langue et à leur culture. La conversation courante et le vocabulaire des lexiques répondent aux besoins des visiteurs qui profiteront de la richesse...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2021. — xx, 485 p. — (Africa / Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages 11). In A Grammar of Lopit, Jonathan Moodie and Rosey Billington provide the first detailed description of Lopit, an Eastern Nilotic language traditionally spoken in the Lopit Mountains in South Sudan. Drawing on extensive primary data, the authors describe the phonology,...
Lincom, 2004. — xxx + 474 p. Kabba belongs to the Western-Sara group of the Central-Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan languages (80,000 speakers in the North of C.A.R., 20,000 in Chad and Cameroon). The grammar consists of ten chapters and is followed by a complete and interlinearised traditional folk story told by Daniel Tambe. Many examples throughout this thesis come from...
University of Nairobi, 2016. — 93 p. This study set out to investigate the Sub dialects within Kisumu-South Nyanza dialect of Dholuo. The analysis was done within the framework of Variationist Theory proposed by Labov (1963). The main objective of the study was to investigate the phonological and lexical variations within the Kisumu South Nyanza dialect and the data used for...
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2013. — 260 p. — (Studies in Nilotic linguistics 6). Nilotic languages display great typological diversity of morpho-sintactic phenomena. For instance, the sentence structure of these relatively little studied languages is spectacular. The sentence structure of Western Nilotic languages stands out as being highly...
Stellenbosch University, 2022. — 298 p. An age old question within the language sciences has been whether linguistic experience influences how people perceive reality. The possible linguistic influence on thought is what is known as linguistic relativity. Experimentally rigorous psycholinguistic approaches provide an understanding of this kind of relationship between language...
Rüdiger Köppe, 1997. — 192 p. — (Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic Analyses and Documentation 12). Dholuo (Luo) belongs to the Western Nilotic sub-branch of the Nilotic branch of the Eastern Sudanic family. Of the Nilotic languages in Kenya only Dholuo, spoken by about 2 million people, belongs to the Western Nilotic group. Languages closely related to it are found in Uganda and the...
Essen: Universität Duisburg-Essen, 2007. — 20 p. Омонди Лусия Н. Эмоциональный стиль в языке долуо, краткий обзор (на англ. яз.) Introduction: Setting and Definitions. Dholuo Emotional Language.
Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), 2008. — 178 p. Agearl atipuruc na kwape ka nuce kere. Acai akolong ejok ido koriripikinete idowon da ne aculonikini ainepit ti naka akolong. Adolunit bobo apak na iwuriak aiyitiakite amoot titabon kotoma oidukai lu titabon. Abeit idwe aibong osomeroi. Ngin ikoku ejaikinitai elisit lo iitabon lu abeit abongoria komam...
Kisumu, Kenya: Lake Publishers & Enterprises Ltd. — 95 p.
Оньянго Оньёйо П. Курс грамматики языка долуо для начинающих (на англ. яз.)
This is an integrated grammar book of Dholuo language, with explanations in English. It will be handy for whoever likes to speak the language. Dholuo is the ethnic language that is spoken by the Luo people living around Lake Victoria (Sango)...
London: J. & E. Bumpus, 1908. — 165 p. Оуэн Р. К. Р. Грамматика и словарь языка бари (на англ. яз.) Bari is the Nilotic language of the Karo people, spoken over large areas of Central Equatoria state in South Sudan, across the northwest corner of Uganda, and into the Democratic Republic of Congo. Bari is a tone language. It has vowel harmony, subject–verb–object word order, and...
Peeters, 2004. — 219 p. — (Afrique et Langage). — ISBN10: 9042914408, ISBN13: 978-9042914407. Kenga is spoken in Chad, in the area of the Guera mountains, by a population of about 50,000 people. It is a central Sudanese language (Nilo-Saharan family) belonging to the group of Sara languages. After a short introduction, the Dictionnaire Kenga consists of a main Kenga-French...
Author: Neddy Odhiambo, Michel Malherbe
Publisher: L'Harmattan
Publication date: 2009-02-06
Number of pages: 184
ISBN: 2296079458
Le luo, de la famille des langues nilotiques, est l'une des trois langues les plus importantes du Kenya.
Il est parlé dans la région du lac Victoria ainsi qu'en Tanzanie dans la région de Mara (nord-ouest de la Tanzanie) limitrophe du Kenya. Le...
4 Ebooks. Total Pages: 628. The Acholi course is specifically prepared for Peace Corps Volunteers. Therefore, lessons are organized in a chronological order of a Peace Corps trainees' needs especially as they go through their Pre-Service Training. There is a glossary at the end of the manual arranged in an alphabetical order. The glossary comprises the vocabulary used in the...
Peace Corps. — 116 p. Год публикации не указан. This Peace Corps Language Training Curriculum is Competency Based, that is, it describes what the Learners will be able to do with the language. They actually study the language used by the Native speakers to express themselves in a variety of situations. Since Peace Corps Volunteers need to be able to function immediately in a...
Peace Corps. — 87 p. Год выпуска не указан. The basic plan of this course is modeled after Experimental Course in Hausa, 'FSI 1965". The Course uses short cycles consisting of mimicry followed by conversations built on the same vocabulary and syntactic pattern. The format has been condensed and altered. The course contains 95 cycles and would require approximately 50 hours to...
Peace Corps. — 87 p. Год выпуска не указан. The 40 texts of the booklet represent a rough draft of an intermediate course in Sara, a language of the Chad Republic of Africa. The texts are to be used by the student on his own or in a small group after he has completed the beginning course of 300 hours. Many of the texts are followed by a selected vocabulary. It is anticipated that...
Rüdiger Köppe, 1996. — 578 p. — (Nilo-Saharan: Linguistic Analyses and Documentation 11). Anywa is a Western Nilotic language spoken on both sides of the Sudanese-Ethiopian border along the rivers Sobat, Baro, Gelo, and Akobo by an estimated population of around 100,000. The Anywa differ economically from their linguistic and partly geographic (cf. Map) neighbours, the Nuer,...
University of Surrey, 2019. — 265 p. This thesis presents a descriptive study of the phonetics, phonology and morphology of Nuer. It contributes to the study of the language by dealing with the phenomena that has little or no previous description. I provide a descriptive account of the phonological processes in Nuer covering the full range of the segmental and suprasegmental...
University of Hawai’i Press, 2018. — 415 p. This special publication of Language Documentation and Conservation presents descriptive analyses on topics in the grammar of Shilluk, a Nilo- Saharan language spoken primarily in South Sudan. A salient characteristic of Shilluk is that it is rich in fusional morphology. That is, stem-internal changes, particularly in terms of tone...
Dietrich Reimer, 1982. — 562 p. — (Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 7). Die Begriffe südnilotisch und Südniloten sind sprachlich definiert. Gemeint sind damit die Sprachen und Sprechergruppen eines der drei Hauptzweige des Nilotischen, das seit Oswin Köhler (1950, 1955) in West-, Ost- und Südnilotisch eingeteilt wird. Über das Sprachliche hinaus scheint für die Gegenwart keine...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. — 375 p. — (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 25). A Conversational Analysis of Acholi elucidates various interaction strategies for the Nilotic language Acholi. Based on detailed examples, Maren Rüsch links the structural organization of Acholi conversations to cultural features such as politeness, language socialization and...
Berlin: Language Science Press, 2017. — xiv, 596 p. — (African Language Grammars and Dictionaries 1). — ISBN: 978-3-944675-95-4. This book is a dictionary and grammar sketch of Ik, one of the three Kuliak (Rub) languages spoken in the beautiful Karamoja region of northeastern Uganda. It is the lexicographic sequel to A grammar of Ik (Icé-tód): Northeast Uganda’s last thriving...
Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1992. — 304 S. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 282). Grundlage dieser Arbeit ist die Sprache der Ik, einem der sogenannten 'Restvölker', deren etwa 3000 Mitglieder am Rande des großen Grabenbruchs in Nordost-Uganda leben. Unsere Kenntnisse über die Ik und insbesondere über ihre Geschichte sind sehr gering. Die umfangreichste ethnologische Beschreibung stammt von...
E.M.I., 1978. — 116 p. — (Museum Combanianum 34). Päri, or Lokoro, is a Luo language of South Sudan. Päri has been claimed to have ergative alignment, which is rare-to-nonexistent in African languages, although recent descriptions of the language have instead described the case system as marked nominative (nominative–absolutive).
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014. — 308 p. — (Culture and Language Use, Vol. 12). — ISBN 9789027269379. This book is a description of Luwo, a Western Nilotic language of South Sudan. Luwo is used by multilingual, dynamic communities of practice as one language among others that form individual and flexible repertoires. It is a language that serves as a means of...
Publication date: 1971
Number of pages: 506
This introductory course in Sara-Ngambay, the accepted standard dialect spoken in the town of Moundou in southern Chad, is intended for Westerners who wish to learn to speak the language. An introduction to the course discusses the scope, orientation, and production of the manual and includes an extensive explanatory section on...
Dietrich Reimer, 1982. — 494 p. — (Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik 9). The Eastern Nilotic languages are one of the three primary branches of the Nilotic languages, themselves belonging to the Eastern Sudanic subfamily of Nilo-Saharan; they are believed to have begun to diverge about 3,000 years ago, and have spread southwards from an original home in Equatoria in South Sudan....
Philadelphia, Pa., The Board of foreign missions of the United Presbyterian church of N.A.; Berlin, D. Reimer (E. Vohsen), 1912. — V, 76 p.
The Shilluk prefer to be known as Chollo, rather than the more widely known term, Shilluk, and their language as dhok-Chollo, dhok being the Chollo word for mouth. The Chollo are a major Nilotic ethnic group of southern Sudan, living on...
Ellen G. White Estate, Inc., 1967 (2014). - 77 p. На языке луо. Путь ко Христу (англ. Steps to Christ) — христианская книга Елены Уайт. Впервые вышла в свет в 1892 году.
Brill, 2021. — xviii, 666 p. — (Grammars and Sketches of the World's Languages; Africa 15). Mursi is a Nilo-Saharan language spoken by a small group of people who live in the Lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and is one of the most endangered languages of the country. Based on the fieldwork that the author conducted in beautiful villages of the Mursi community, this descriptive...
University of Nairobi, 2014. — 102 p. This study seeks to investigate and establish loanwords in the Boro- Ukwala (B-U) dialect of Dholuo from the Luhya group of Lumarachi and Lunyala B who neighbour the speakers of B-U dialect of Dholuo. The study further investigate s and establishes the adaptation strategies a loanword undergoes from the Luhya dialects of Lumarachi and...
Комментарии