| Tondi Songway Kiini: Reference Grammar and Tsk-English-French Dictionary Contributor(s): Heath, Jeffrey (Author) |
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ISBN: 157586505X ISBN-13: 9781575865058 Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat OUR PRICE: $47.03 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2005 Annotation: Only recently discovered by linguistic scholars, Tondi Songway Kiini (TSK) is a tonal language spoken in the small country of Mali in western Africa. Unlike other Songhay languages, TSK preserves the lexical and grammatical tones of its proto-language and also exhibits unique systems for the expression of focalization and relativization." Tondi Songway Kiini "is a valuable overview of the grammar of an African language with a tone system quite different from that of the more familiar Bantu system. It is also an irreplaceable guide to the grammar and meanings of this unusual African language. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General - History | Africa - General - Foreign Language Study | African Languages (see Also Swahili) |
| Dewey: 496.5 |
| LCCN: 2005020100 |
| Series: Stanford Monographs in African Languages |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.44" W x 8.98" (1.37 lbs) 450 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Only recently discovered by linguistic scholars, Tondi Songway Kiini (TSK) is a tonal language spoken in the small country of Mali in western Africa. Unlike other Songhay languages, TSK preserves the lexical and grammatical tones of its proto-language and also exhibits unique systems for the expression of focalization and relativization. Tondi Songway Kiini is a valuable overview of the grammar of an African language with a tone system quite different from that of the more familiar Bantu system. It is also an irreplaceable guide to the grammar and meanings of this unusual African language. |