This is a dictionary of Bole, a little documented language of the Chadic family, spoken in northeastern Nigeria. This is one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of any Chadic language other than Hausa.

Based on the cognitive linguistic view of language as a reflection of human experience, as well as the way we perceive and conceptualize our world, the book uses a variety of approaches to make analyses and comparisons at various levels.

Written by the world's leading expert on Hausa, this book provides a lucid and comprehensive linguistic history of the language, highlighting changes in phonology, tonology, morphology, grammar, and lexicon.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

Kurze Grammatiken, Vokabulare Und Phrasensammlungen Der Drei Hauptsprachen in Togo: Anglo-Ewe, Anecho-Ewe Und Haussa.

As a guide to pronunciation, headwords and illustrative sentences are fully marked for tone and vowel length. The book adopts a unique approach to the presentation of verb forms that clarifies lexical relationships and their correct usage.

This work develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding literary and cultural materials.