Clifford Simango. Concise Chindau Dictionary.

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Emmanuel Sithole¹ 

[1] School of Languages and Literatures: African Language Studies, Rhodes University, Makhanda and Faculty of Humanities, Northwest University

DOI  :  10.5788/32-1-1751

学科分类：化学工程（综合）

来源: Buro Van Die Woordeboek Van Die Afrikaanse Taal

【 摘 要 】

As a language that was first described and written by Portuguese and Englishexplorers, traders, and missionaries, ChiNdau possesses the sort of intermittentlexicographic tradition seen in several other indigenous African languages. Avocabulary wordlist in Wilhelm Bleek's (1856) The Languages of Mozambique thatrecords some Ndau words and their glosses under the Sofala column set thestage for lexicographic development in Ndau. Whereas Bleek's effort may sometimes fail to qualify as a 'dictionary' in several contested senses of the word,succeeding bilingual paper dictionaries such as Dysart and Orner's (1915)ChiNdau–English English–ChiNdau Vocabulary with Grammatical Notes and Manueldos Anjos Martins's (2013) Elementos Da Língua Ndau: Gramática, Literatura Oral eDicionário provided a springboard for a meaningful development of Ndau lexicography in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The dictionary under review, CliffordSimango's (2019) Concise ChiNdau Dictionary (hereafter CCD), is then a fourthlexicographic endeavour to be published in Ndau.

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