Bole-English-Hausa dictionary : and English-Bole wordlist /

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Author / Creator:Gimba, Maina, 1961- author.
Imprint:Oakland : University of California Press, [2014]
©2015
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Afro-Asiatic
Hausa
Series:University of California publications in linguistics ; volume 148
University of California publications in linguistics ; volume 148.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11238864
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Other authors / contributors:Schuh, Russell G., 1941-2016, author.
ISBN:9780520961470
0520961471
9780520286115
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
In Bole, English and Hausa.
Summary: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.
Other form:Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Gimba, Alhaji Maina. Bole-english-hausa dictionary and english-bole wordlist