Lyang Lu

One Thousand and One Proverbs, Idioms and Sayings in Mushere (Northern Nigeria) with a Grammatical Outline and Vocabulary

by Herrmann Jungraithmayr and Philibus I. Diyakal

Extent: 326 pages

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Series: Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main - Schriften

Series volume number: 22

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(February 2009)

ISBN: 9783515092319

6.3 x 9.45 inches

Price: $76.00

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In Afrika lebt – noch! – eine mundliche Tradition von Wissensgut, die mit der Verschriftlichung einiger weniger afrikanischer Verkehrssprachen verloren zu gehen droht. Besonders die zahlreichen Minderheitensprachen, zu denen das Mushere auf dem zentralnigerianischen Plateau zahlt, laufen Gefahr, dem allgemeinen Trend zur bevorzugten Verwendung uberregionaler Sprachen zum Opfer zu fallen. Lyang Lu, etwa mit “Poetischer Hausschatz” wiederzugeben, erfasst einen Grossteil der Sprichworter und Redensarten, wie sie die Alltagssprache dieses kleinen Bauernvolkes am Sudrand des Plateaus “wurzen” und bereichern. Mit diesem Werk betritt das Mushere erstmalig die Welt der Schriftlichkeit: Sowohl die Orthographie als auch die Regeln der Grammatik erfahren hier ihre erste wissenschaftliche Fixierung. Die Sprichworter werden in drei Stufen ins Englische ubertragen: Wort fur Wort, wortliche Ubersetzung und freie Ubertragung. Diesem Hauptteil, dem eine Kurzgrammatik vorangestellt ist, folgt ein etwa 1000 Lexeme umfassendes Mushere – Englisch / Englisch – Mushere Worterverzeichnis.

By (author) Philibus I Diyakal
By (author) Herrmann Jungraithmayr

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