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Goldstein, Melvyn C. Comp.; Narkyid, Ngawangthondup, Comp. – 1984
This English-Tibetan dictionary contains 16,000 main entries and subentries, a total of 45,000 lexical items. The dictionary is primarily oriented to spoken communication and was designed to be semantically sensitive, bridging the semantic gap between Tibetan and English. Tibetan terms corresponding to submeanings of English subterms are…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, English, Grammar, Orthographic Symbols
Hammer, Petra; Monod, Madeleine – 1976
This dictionary contains a word list of 10,993 English-French cognates (words with the same or similar spelling and meaning in both languages), including some loan words from other languages. A systematic review of the Larousse "Dictionnaire Moderne Francais--Anglais" (1960) provided this list of cognates. Deceptive cognates, or words…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dictionaries, English, Foreign Countries
Ben Abdelkader, Rached; And Others – 1977
This supplement to the Peace Corps Course in Tunisian Arabic is intended primarily for Peace Corps volunteers, but is also useful to other English speakers who wish to acquire systematically a knowledge of Tunisian Arabic. The dictionary consists of two parts. The lexicon, which begins with a chart of all the phonetic symbols used in the…
Descriptors: Arabic, Dictionaries, English, Grammar
PDF pending restorationCalifornia Univ., Berkeley. Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies. – 1987
A 2-year project to develop a dictionary of modern Nepali is described. The Nepali-English dictionary was designed to include high-frequency vocabulary and to treat entries thoroughly, including associated collocations, semantic and/or grammatical restrictions, and other information essential to their use in sentences. Contents include 3,642 main…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Dictionaries, Grammar
Berntsen, Maxine; Nimbkar, Jai – 1975
This Marathi-English dictionary is intended for the adult student learning Marathi through the medium of English. It contains approximately 10,000 entries, most of which are basic words from which others can be derived. The words constitute a basic vocabulary, including the current meanings, and excluding obsolete meanings. In some cases, the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Dictionaries, English, Indo European Languages
Munro, David A. – 1967
This short dictionary is designed to accompany the work of Melzian (1937) for the benefit of scholars concerned with the place and function of the Nigerian Bini language in the structure of West African languages. The conventional orthography has been used, except in three cases. The body of the general word list contains the English meaning, the…
Descriptors: African Languages, Bini, Dictionaries, Grammar
PDF pending restorationWaters, Bruce, Comp. – 1983
A dictionary of Djinang, a member of the Nhangu group of Australian Aboriginal languages, consists of three parts. The first is an alphabetically-organized listing of Djinang words and contains one or more of these fields of information for each: a Djinang word or phrase, dialect information, part of speech, English meaning, Roget's Thesaurus…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Classification, Creoles, Definitions
Armstrong, Robert G. – 1967
This systematic lexical comparison of 1,050 words from five Nigerian Igbo dialects is based on the list used for the West African Language Survey in 1960. The comparative phonologies are not to be regarded as definitive but as hypotheses derived from the present material. In Igbo, as in other Kwa languages, there are in general no consonant…
Descriptors: African Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Dialects
PDF pending restorationKari, James, Comp. – 1977
This noun dictionary of the Athapascan language covers all dialects of the Tanaina language of the Cook Inlet region. It has been prepared for the Dena'ina people to help maintain their language and culture. The introduction explains the Dena'ina dialects and the phonological system of the Dena'ina alphabet. The dictionary is organized into…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Languages, Athapascan Languages, Bilingual Education


