Tondi Songway Kiini (Songhay, Mali) : reference grammar and TSK-English-French dictionary

Author(s)

• Heath, Jeffrey

Bibliographic Information

Tondi Songway Kiini (Songhay, Mali) : reference grammar and TSK-English-French dictionary

Jeffrey Heath

（Stanford monographs in African languages）

Center for the Study of Language and Information, c2005

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Only recently discovered by linguistic scholars, "Tondi Songway Kiini" (TSK) is a tonal language spoken in the small country of Mali in western AFrica. Unlike other Songhay languages, TSK preserves the lexical and grammatical tones of its proto-language and also exhibits unique systems for the expression of focalization and relativization. "Tondi Songway Kiini" is a valuable overview of the grammar of an African language with a tone system quite different from that of the more familiar Bantu system.

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Details

• NCID: BA74683967
• ISBN:
  • 157586505X
• LCCN: 2005020100
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: sonengfre
• Place of Publication: Stanford, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 440 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PL8685.95.T68
  • DC22 : 496/.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Tondi Songway Kiini dialect -- Grammar
  • LCSH : Tondi Songway Kiini dialect -- Dictionaries -- Polyglot
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA3357673X