A grammar of the Chinyanja language as spoken at Lake Nyassa with Chinyanja-English and English-Chinyanja vocabularies
by Riddel, Alexander
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Edinburgh: John MacLaren & Son, 1880. First edition, 24mo, pp. 150, [1]; original limp terracotta cloth lettered in black on upper cover; edges worn, old institutional embossed stamp on title-page, accession numbers in blue biro at lower corner of upper cover (not offensive), front hinge with old repair; Waterhouse Collection bookplate dated 1902; good and reasonably sound. The vocabularies occupy nearly two-thirds of the text. Riddel participated in the Livingstone Mission to Central Africa 1875-79. This is likely the first book on the Chinyanja language. Not in Zaunmuller. Trübner, Catalogue of Dictionaries and Grammars (1882), p. 38.
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- A grammar of the Chinyanja language as spoken at Lake Nyassa with Chinyanja-English and English-Chinyanja vocabularies
- Author
- Riddel, Alexander
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- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John MacLaren & Son
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1880
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- Africa , , ,
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