Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Grammatical Sketch of Chindali: The Chindali Language of Malawi, Volume 2

Grammatical Sketch of Chindali: The Chindali Language of Malawi, Volume 2

Botne, Robert
Schafer, Loveness

Hardcover

Series: Lightning Rod Press

Foreign Language GeneralOther African Languages

ISBN10: 1606189107
ISBN13: 9781606189108
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 201
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Chindali is spoken along the northern border of Malawi and in southwestern Tanzania. There are about 70,000 speakers in Malawi and 150,000 speakers in Tanzania. This grammatical sketch represents the language as spoken in the region of northern Malawi. It differs in important ways from the variety spoken in Tanzania, esp. in verbal morphology. It also differs from a closely related dialect called Chisukwa, primarily in tone and some sounds. Contents: Intro.; Phonology; Noun Morphology; Noun Modification; Verbs: Structure and Morphology; Verb Types; Verbs: Constructions and Phrases; Ideophones; Syntax; Invariable Forms. Append.: Verb Templates; Paradigm of the Verb uku.lima 'cultivate; hoe'. References.

2 different editions

Also available

Also from

Botne, Robert

View All

Also in

Other African Languages

View All