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Tondi Songway Kiini (Songhay, Mali) : reference grammar and TSK-English-French dictionary / Jeffrey Heath.
Van Pelt Library PL8685.95.T68 H43 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey.
- Series:
- Stanford monographs in African languages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tondi Songway Kiini dialect--Grammar.
- Tondi Songway Kiini dialect.
- Tondi Songway Kiini dialect--Dictionaries--Polyglot.
- Grammar.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 440 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications/Center for the Study of Language and Information, [2005]
- Summary:
- Only recently discovered by linguistic scholars, Tondi Songway Kiini (TSK) is a tonal language spoken in the small country of Mali in western Africa. Unlike other Songhay languages, TSK preserves the lexical and grammatical tones of its proto-language and also exhibits unique systems for the expression of focalization and relativization." Tondi Songway Kiini "is a valuable overview of the grammar of an African language with a tone system quite different from that of the more familiar Bantu system. It is also an irreplaceable guide to the grammar and meanings of this unusual African language.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page xviii).
- ISBN:
- 157586505X
- OCLC:
- 61162073
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