Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm
Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm
Reihe: Languages of the World/Dictionaries
ISBN: 978-3-89586-892-4
Verlag: LINCOM
Madi is a Central Sudanic (Nilo Saharan) language with a quarter of a million speakers in Sudan and Uganda. It is characterised by loanwords across a geopolitical divide (Arabic in Sudan, Swahili in Uganda, and English and Italian in both countries). Thus the lexicon of Madi reflects in part the socio-cultural and political contacts of the Madi people.
The core part of the dictionary has 5000 entries. Each entry begins with a phonetic transcription of a Madi word, followed by its representation in standard orthography, its word class, and English glosses. Many entries also include derived or inflected words, idioms, and example sentences. Alternative pronunciations and spellings are given, and dialectal variants. Loanwords are indicated, and a source word is suggested.
This dictionary improves on a short dictionary of Madi by Fr. John Ferrazin (1995), which uses the standard orthography and does not represent the full range of vowels or the tones. The author is a native speaker of the language, and the research for the dictionary has also included work with other native speakers.
