HALD Phase 1 focuses on 18 historical
dictionaries, published between 1857 and 1924.
Set 1
Eight bilingual dictionaries of
Bantu languages spoken in eastern and southern Africa and one non-Bantu
language.
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Mijikenda-English
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Kenya
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Yao-English |
Mozambique |
Yao-English Vocabulary. 1888. Zanzibar: Universities' Mission
Press.
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Kiswahili-French
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East Africa
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Sacleux, Charles. 1939 (1888). Dictionnaire
Swahili-Francais.
Paris: Institut D'Ethnologie.
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Sotho-English
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Southern Africa
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Kruger, F. Hermann. 1876. Sesuto-English
vocabulary. Mantsue a Sesotho le tlalosetso ea 'ona ka sEnglish.
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Luganda-English
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Uganda |
Pilkington, George Lawrence. 1892. Luganda-English and English-Luganda
Vocabulary. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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Sukuma-German |
Tanzania |
Seidel, A. 1894. Das Kisukuma: grammatische Skizze nebst kisukuma-deutschen
und deutsch-kisukuma Vokabularium.
Berlin: Gergonni.
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English-Kikuyu |
Kenya |
McGregor, A. W. 1904. English-Kikuyu Vocabulary, Compiled for
the Use of the C.M.S. Missions in East Africa. London: Soc. for the prom. of
Christ. Knowledge.
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Zulu-English
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South
Africa |
Kropf, Albert. 1915. A Kafir-English Dictionary. Edited by
Robert Godfrey. Second edition. [Stutterheim] South Africa: Lovedale Mission
Press. |
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English-Maa |
Kenya
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Erhardt, James J., and J. L. Krapf. 1857. Vocabulary of the Enguduk Iloigob, as Spoken by
the Masai-Tribes in East-Africa. Ludwigsburg, Würtemberg:
Printed by F. Riehm. |
Set 2
Four bilingual Kiswahili
dictionaries with definitions in English, German, French, and Italian
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Kiswahili-English |
Kenya
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Krapf, Johann Ludwig. 1882. A Dictionary of the Suahili
Language: With Introduction Containing an Outline of a Suahili Grammar.
Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
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Kiswahili-German |
Tanzania |
St Paul-Illaire, Walter von. 1896.
Swahili-Sprachführer. Dar-es-Salaam:
W. Richter.
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Kiswahili-French
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East Africa
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Hémery, A. 1901. Vocabulaire
français-swahili-tèita.
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Italian-Kiswahili
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East Africa
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Cavicchioni,
Antonio C. 1923. Vocabolario italiano-swahili. Bologna: N. Zanichelli.
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Five multilingual
dictionaries that present data from multiple African Bantu and non-Bantu languages
in the same volume.
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English-Xhosa and Zulu |
South
Africa |
Davis, William J. 1877. An English and Kaffir Dictionary:
Principally of the Xosa-Kaffir, but Including Also
Many Words of the Zulu-Kaffir Dialect. London: Printed for the Wesleyan
Missionary Society.
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English & 48 languages
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General
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Last, J. T. 1885. Polyglotta Africana Orientalis; or
a Comparative Collection of Two Hundred
and Fifty Words and Sentences in Forty-Eight Languages and Dialects Spoken
South of the Equator and Additional Words in Nineteen Languages. London:
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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English and 4 Kenyan Languages
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East Africa
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Shaw, Archibald Downes, and John Prediger Farler. 1885. A Pocket
Vocabulary of the Ki-Swahili, Ki-Nyika, Ki-Taita, and Ki-Kamba Languages.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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English-Kamba and Kikuyu
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Kenya |
Hinde, Hildegarde. 1904. Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu
languages of East Africa. Cambridge: The Univ. Pr.
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Portuguese-Kiswahili + others
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Mozambique
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Cabral, A. A.
Pereira. 1924. Vocabulario Portugues, Shironga, Shitsua, Guitonga, Shisope,
Shisena, Shinhungue, Shishuabo, Kikua, Shi-Yao e Kissuahilo. Lourenco
Marques: Impresa Nacional.
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