This Kinande/Konzo-English dictionary has the following features:

 -A Preface by Mgr Sikuli Paluku Melchisedech of the Nande diocese

 -A brief grammatical sketch of Kinande
It gives more information on potential entries not included
in the dictionary; e.g., on the passive, the causative, other
verbal extensions, the auxiliary;  it also includes a table of
tense-aspectual-mood markers and main phonological and
morphological processes such as ATR harmony, penultimate
lengthening, reduplication, and the –ite inflection.

-A map of the Nande and Konzo area

The dictionary proper:

-More than 7150 lexical entries with
their roots and underlying tonal representations

-More than 3400 English-Kinande words in the index

 In the appendices:

-More than 240 phrasal expressions (ehisimo n’emisyo)

-A paper on personal names of the Nande

-A section on medicinal plants that includes
-terminology of medicinal herbs known by the Nande
-terminology of diseases in Kinande
-treatment of certain diseases with medicinal plants

-Elements of Kinande culture  through a sample of pictures (which
can be viewed on the Afranaph website).

-Additional notes on the Nande/Konzo from a Konzo perspective

-A paper on the Bakonzo traditional beliefs in medical and
curative values derived from herbs by Stanley Baluku

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

NGESSIMO M. MUTAKA is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon. He is the author of The lexical tonology of Kinande (1994), Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon (with B.S. Chumbow, eds. 2001); An Introduction to African Linguistics (with P. Tamanji, 2000) and two AIDS prevention books: the Fruit of Love  (2001) and Wish I had known (2004). He is married with three children.

CATEGORY

Language, Linguistics, Dictionary/AFRICA