From: musamize <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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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
terminologies 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
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>From: musamize
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>Subject: Re: [Ugnet] A garbled Luganda glossary
>Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:14:13 -0700 (PDT)
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>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 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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