Mr. Vukoni,
The link you chanced upon is part of the UC Berkeleys Comparative Bantu Online Dictionary (CBOLD). It has several Bantu language dictionaries. See www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~jblowe/CBOLD/info.html.
The one on Luganda is from Luganda-English Dictionary by the linguist Ronald Albert Snoxall (1967).
This dictionary includes tonal marks to help a linguistically sophisticated foreigner produce the correct pronunciation. These marks are what make the glossary look 'garbled' can be somewhat distracting even to a native Luganda, who is linguistically illiterate, such as me.
An earlier Luganda dictionary is A LUGANDA-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-LUGANDA DICTIONARY by Ven. A.L. Kitching, & , Rev. G.R. Blackledge (1925?), later revised by E.M.K. Mulira & E.G.M. Ndawula in 1952.
Rev. Blackledge was building on Pilkingtons earlier A Handbook of Luganda, which appeared in 1897. Pilkington also produced the first Luganda bible, aided by a team led by Rev. Duta (His real name was Luttamaguzi). The book was reprinted, and improved upon several times, long after Pilkington had died in Uganda.
A bit earlier, in 1914 & 1917, the French White fathers had produced a Luganda-French manual and dictionary, respectively:
P. Le Veux 1914 Manuel de Langue Luganda & P. Le Veux 1917 Vocabulaire Luganda Francais.
The Russians, too, got in the act in 1969 when Olga Petrovna Nosova produced the Luganda Russian dictionary: Kratkiĭ luganda-russkiĭ i russko-luganda slovar, published in Moscow.
Not to be outdone, in 1970 the US State Department countered with Luganda, pretraining program by Earl W. Stevick & Frederick Katabazi Kamoga, which was published in Washington by the Foreign Service Institute, complete with cassette tapes. The book has tonal marks.
This was followed by LUGANDA-ENGLISH DICTIONARY by a team of Baganda led by John D. Murphy in 1972 at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC.
Lately, Margaret Nanfukas 1996 Luganda-English phrase book, published in Kampala by Fountain Publishers, and aimed at tourists and expats has been doing well.
The latter group of people probably stimulated the re-issuing of Elementary Luganda, by B. E. R. Kirwan & P. A. Gore, last printed in 1961; and The essentials of Luganda, by J. D. Chesswas first published in 1963.
The current generation has not been idle either. A Luganda-English Dictionary on a CD was released this year.
Also, a Luganda-English dictionary was produced by a Muganda in one of the Nordic countries (Sweden?), but the details escape me now.
On the web there is a Luganda-English & English-Luganda translator under construction at www.gandaancestry.com, but that portion may not be open to the public yet.
In Buganda, Ekibiina Kyolulimi Oluganda is putting together a Luganda-Luganda dictionary, which will be a first.
Id think that among all these resources, and others not listed, you should easily be able to locate something to suit your needs.
Musamize
Vukoni Lupa-Lasaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quite by accident, I discovered the following link:
http://www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/CBOLD_Lexicons/Ganda.Snoxall1967/Non-distributed_files/Luganda%20Parsed.
Does anybody know where I could get a clearer version of the Luganda
glossary on that page?
Thanks.
v
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