1911 Living Speech in Central and South Africa: An Essay Introductory to the Bantu Family of Languages

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The scarce first edition of Arthur Cornwallis Madan's 1911 introduction to African Bantu family of languages, a large family of languages spoken by the Bantu people of Central, Southern, and Southeast Africa.

With passages devoted to the verbs, adverbs, suffixes and nouns of the languages, Bantu in relation to general philology, and the origins of root words.

The work of a linguist and Anglican missionary who became famous for his research on African languages and his publication of Swahili dictionaries. 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.