Bole-English-Hausa Dictionary and English-Bole Wordlist

This is a dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of any Chadic language other than Hausa. All entries for Bole are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The Bole-English-Hausa section has full definitions and explanations of meaning in English with numerous examples of use. Each entry has a Hausa gloss. The English-Bole section is intended mainly as an index to the Bole-English-Hausa section. There are appendices of flora and fauna terms, cultural terms, pronouns, and comprehensive paradigms of verb forms.

About the author

Alhaji Maina Gimba is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Russgel G. Schuh is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA.

Summary

A dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. It includes appendices of flora and fauna terms, cultural terms, pronouns, and comprehensive paradigms of verb forms.

Product details

• Authors: Alhaji Maina Gimba, Alhaji Maina Schuh Gimba, Maina Gimba, Gimba Alhaji Maina, Russell G. Schuh, Schuh Russell G.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2014
• EAN: 9780520286115
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28611-5
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: UC Publications in Linguistics; UC Publications in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; English, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Dictionaries, Bilingual and multilingual dictionaries, Bilingual & Multilingual Dictionaries, Non-Semitic Afro-Asiatic languages