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ASANTE TWI LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS
Twi Lessons for beginners is a Grammatical Guide compiled for all who desire to Learn the Twi or Akan Language of Ghana. Leading beginners into the necessary elementary knowledge of the language, the series of well-arranged lessons will gradually introduce them to its fundamental principles and at the same time make them acquainted with a good working Vocabulary. In this book Learners will be furnished with •The elementary knowledge of the language, •Fundamental principles of the language •Series of well-arranged lessons •Good working Vocabulary.
Listening to Ourselves
Contemporary African philosophy in indigenous African languages and English translation. A groundbreaking contribution to the discipline of philosophy, this volume presents a collection of philosophical essays written in indigenous African languages by professional African philosophers with English translations on the facing pagesdemonstrating the linguistic and conceptual resources of African languages for a distinctly African philosophy. Hailing from five different countries and writing in six different languages, the seven authors featured include some of the most prominent African philosophers of our time. They address a range of topics, including the nature of truth, different ways of conceiving time, the linguistic status of proverbs, how naming practices work, gender equality and inequality in traditional society, the relationship between language and thought, and the extent to which morality is universal or culturally variable.
Twi Basic Course
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Ghanaianisms
Ghanaianisms is a compilation of words and expressions, peculiar to English in Ghana and used by English-speaking Ghanaians, that have been absorbed into Ghanaian English from local and foreign languages. The glossary contains some 2,000 entries. All items included have been found in written language and in print at least three times, over a period of ten years. For each entry, the sources and history of the words, their meanings, and examples of usage are provided. A detailed introduction elucidates the principles of the work and the present socio-linguistic situation in Ghana.
A Dictionary of Ila Usage, 1860-1960
This book is based on material collected by missionaries at Kasenga Mission in Zambia. Edwin Smith began in 1901 to note each new Ila word, together with illustrative sentences dictated by his Ila informants. Later missionaries continued this practice, so that in 1959 the author found a mass of over 12,000 items already collected. As the largest body of Ila ever assembled, the dictionary offers much of interest in several fields. The language has a consistent agglutinative structure of great sophistication, logical as Latin, flexible as Greek. The speakers reveal not merely the preoccupations of daily existence in Ila villages a century ago, but an outlook both sensitive and wryly humourous. Feared in battle, fearful of spirits, revering God; hunters of lion and buffalo, polygamous, romantic, ribald in men's company, but highly proper in women's, tender towards children, with a high regard for the arts of hospitality, conversation, and love, the Baila spring with verve from these pages. Appendices list nearly 2,000 synonyms, 276 proverbs, l64 metaphors, 216 customs, 400 trees with their medicinal uses, 290 plants, 150 birds, and grammatical tables.
ASHANTI PROVERBS
First published in 1916, this book contains eight hundred and thirty (830) proverbial sayings of the Ashantis revised with the modern Akan-Twi alphabetic characters and an introduction to the Twi language with a view to the pronunciation of Twi words. To this has been added numerous annotations including English names of the flora and fauna in the Asante dialect employed in this book. This book seeks to show: •Some customs, beliefs, or ethical determinant pure and simple, which may be of interest to the anthropologist. •Some grammatical or syntactical construction of importance to the student of the language.
Spoken Twi
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Let's Learn Twi
This guide to Twi, the language of the Akan people of Ghana, incorporates Akan culture into the instruction. While primarily of use to the lay person, it will, however, also be welcomed by the more academic linguist wishing to learn more about the language's structure.
