About the Book:-The author portrays that this Dictionary is an attempt to bring together in a convenient form materials for the study of the language most widely known throughout East and Central Africa, and to combine them in the light of a long, though in various ways limited, experience. It would be more accurately described as an annotated vocabulary of the dialect of Swahili commonly spoken in Zanzibar city. It cannot lay claim to the formal completeness, especially in the treatment of verbs, which attaches to the idea of a dictionary, and it deals with a dialect which in respect of a large number of words is distinguished by the Swahilis themselves from the Swahili dialect of the coast. It is based on the lists of words, singularly accurate and relatively complete in themselves, furnished by Bishop Steere's Handbook of Swahili and scattered throughout his collections and translations, and on Krapfs Diclionary of Swahili —works issued more than twenty years ago. No work, however, at present exists (1903) which attempts the same object as the present. It was beyond the scope of Bishop Steere's plan to supply more than full lists of useful words. This important book is recommended for those who have deep interest in Swahili language. About the Author :-Arthur Cornwallis Madan was a British linguist and Anglican missionary who became famous for his research on African languages and his Swahili dictionaries. In 1880 he was sent to Zanzibar, where he learned Swahili and assisted Bishop Edward Steere in his language research and translation work. When Steere died in August 1882, Madan finished Steere's manuscript of a Swahili grammar until the end of the year. He continued to work on Swahili dictionaries. Initially this was a pioneer's work, as Ludwig Krapf's dictionary of Swahili, the first for this language, had not yet been published. In 1894 Madan's English-Swahili dictionary was published, followed by a Swahili-English dictionary in 1903.He is remembered mostly for his dictionaries and other writings about the Swahili language. His dictionaries became the base for the Standard English-Swahili Dictionary and Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, which are known under the name of "Madan-Johnson". The Title 'A English-Swahili Dictionary written/authored/edited by A. C. Madan, Frederick Johnson', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121246491 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 637 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English, Swahili. . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-
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