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ACAL, Vol. 5
Linguistic Typology and Representation of African LanguagesEdited by John M. Mugane
This volume represents a selection of 25 peer-reviewed papers from the 33rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) held in March 2002 at Ohio University in Athens. The papers cover language acquisition, syntax, phonetics, phonology, morphology, historical linguistics, as well as language use and function in Africa making proposals concerning the proper analysis and representation of linguistic information.
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AFRICAN MUSLIM NAMES
Images and Identities by Sharifa M. Zawawi
A name reflects and reinforces an identity both when it is given and when it is changed. African Muslim Names discusses the social and cultural significance of proper names. It explains how names are chosen for newborns in African societies and the values they represent. In these days of mounting interest in identity and culture, many Muslim Africans and African-Americans and others wish to know the meanings of the names they choose so that they reflect their aspirations for their children and themselves.
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AFRO-MEXICANS
Discourse of Race and Identity in the African DiasporaBy Chege Githiora
This book is about a little known branch of the African Diaspora—Afro-Mexicans. It discusses their conditions of arrival and establishment in Mexico within the context of Spanish colonialism, and the race-based socio-economic hierarchy known as sistema de castas which provided a basis for the contemporary socioracial terms that are the focus of the main study: indio, blanco, negro and moreno. Today, these terms are used ubiquitously in variable ways as tags of social identity in Mexican discourse. An ethnographic sketch of a representative Afro-Mexican community located in the state of Guerrero then provides...
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ALA ANNUALS, Vol. 10
Tongue and Mother TongueEdited Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith and Daniel P. Kunene
Tongue and Mother Tongue is takes on two compelling challenges: the language question and the place and role of the mother tongue in African literature. This collection is the culmination of the fierce, decades-old debates on the question of African literature and its criticism. The fourteen essays, which range from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, have been organized in to five thematic categories whose sequence should be experienced as a continuous dialogue rather than a collection of discrete statements...
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AMHARIC-ARGOBBA DICTIONARY
Girma A. Demeke
This bilingual dictionary gives Argobba equivalent translations to Amharic entries. It is prepared mostly based on the previously published Argobba-Amharic dictionary by the same author. Argobba has four varieties which can be categorized into two broad dialects. One of the dialects is known as the Shonke-T'ollaha dialect and the other Aliyu Amba - Shoa Robit dialect. The former includes the varieties spoken in Wollo province, especially in villages such as Shonke, T'ollaha and Asyniya. The latter includes all the varieties spoken in areas such as Gacheni and its surroundings, Aliyu Amba and its surroundings, Shoa Robit and its surroundings, etc. In this dictionary the Shonke-T'ollaha dialect is abbreviated as Shonke and the Aliyu Amba- Shoa Robit as Aliyu. All the varieties within the Aliyu Amba- Shoa Robit dialect entered under Aliyu and the Shonke-Tollaha dialect under Shonke.
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ARABIC FOR ENGLISH SPEAKING MEDICS by Sharifa Zawawi
"Arabic for English Speaking Medics" is based on simple conversations that typically take place in familiar medic-patient situations. These provide the learner with the words and phrases most commonly used in medical settings as the hospital bedside and the admissions desk. As a reference tool, it may also be helpful in improving communication between English-speaking and Arabic-speaking medics.
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