Musamize & Vokoni
The first Luganda - Luganda dictionary by Kibuuka Kiingi and the
Makerere Institute of Languages is being printed at this time. It will be
the official dictionary to be used in schools especially the lower grades (
1-4). During last month's African linguists\ lexicologists meeting in
Nairobi, Makerere University emerged as the leeding research university on
the Lexicology of African languages. A number of research ( phd) candidates
from Makerere were being "enticed" to complete their PHDs in South African
and Tanzanian Universities ( e.g one of Lusoga).
James Ssenyange
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From: musamize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Ugnet] A garbled Luganda glossary
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:14:13 -0700 (PDT)
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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