Dictionary of the Tebele Shuna Languages

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Excerpt from Dictionary of the Tebele Shuna Languages: With Illustrative Sentences and Some Grammatical Notes In offering these vocabularies to the inhabitants of Zambesia, I am conscious in very lively fashion of their many imperfections, but I hope, nevertheless, they may be of some service in the new country. Any first attempt at reducing to writing a new language and dictionary-making must necessarily be tentative, and I shall be quite satisfied if my efforts prove of value to future workers in the same field. When one reads the statements of such men as Dr. Worcester, who in the preface to his Dictionary wrote, No amount of labour, research, care can render such a work free from errors and defects, or of Dr. Young, who, after the publication of his Analytical Concordance to the Bible, involving thirty years labour, and striving in every way to avoid errors, tells how a critic pointed out to him that the words Holy Ghost had been omitted, it may readily be understood that my hopes for the accuracy of my book do not run very high. The Tebele language is of course only a variety of the Zulu, but the Shuna is practically an unknown tongue. The Rev. A.M. Hartmann sDictionary and Grammar, printed while this work was under revision, are in what may be called the Gomo dialect, with its strongly marked gutturals. The Matebele call the Mashuna of the Salisbury country AmaGomo the hill people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.