Please let us know when it hits the street.
ssenya nyange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ssenya nyange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mw. Semakula,
What I know is that the printers, the author ( Kiingi) and Makerere
University were supporsed to seal the agreement this month, and expect it on
the market at the beginning of next year.
Ssenyange
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>From: musamize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [Ugnet] A garbled Luganda glossary
>Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Mw. Ssenyange,
>
>That will be a welcome addition! Do you know when we can expect it in
>stores? I'd like to pre-order it.
>
>I regret that in the previous list I forgot to include a special dictionary
>by Prof. Daniel Ntanda Nsereko at the University of Botswana. The title is
>something like Luganda English Law Dictionary. It explains legal
>termin ologies in Luganda.
>
>ssenya nyange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>
>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
>-----------------------------------------
>
> >From: musamize
> >Reply-To: [email protected]
> >To: [email protected]
> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: R e: [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, Mar garet 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 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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