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Menán Du Plessis

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Description:Kora or !Ora in the language itself, was the Khoisan language spoken by the Khoi herders of the early Cape and the Gariep. It was believed to have disappeared until only a few years ago, when Mike Besten, an historian at the University of the Free State, discovered a few elderly people who still retained some fluency in the language. The author devised and carried out an emergency documentation in 2011, when she and her small team managed to obtain recordings from two of the last living speakers.It was out of this experience that the idea for this book emerged. The over-riding purpose of the work, which is envisaged as an act of cultural restitution, is to retrieve the all but discarded linguistic heritage of the Korana and Griqua people of South Africa – not only for the latter-day descendants of these communities, but for all South Africans.The two opening chapters describe the linguistic classification of the language, and the sources of our earlier information about it. The third and fourth chapters describe the sounds and structures of the language while the work also includes 43 heritage texts in the original language, and a dictionary. The texts, which consist of historical narratives, accounts of cultural traditions, personal histories, folktales, and the lyrics of songs – have been newly edited and are presented with parallel translations in English.In the online version of the book, approximately one third of the dictionary entries are linked to spoken examples provided by the two elderly speakers who worked with the linguists.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with KORA: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep.. To get started finding KORA: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Kora or !Ora in the language itself, was the Khoisan language spoken by the Khoi herders of the early Cape and the Gariep. It was believed to have disappeared until only a few years ago, when Mike Besten, an historian at the University of the Free State, discovered a few elderly people who still retained some fluency in the language. The author devised and carried out an emergency documentation in 2011, when she and her small team managed to obtain recordings from two of the last living speakers.It was out of this experience that the idea for this book emerged. The over-riding purpose of the work, which is envisaged as an act of cultural restitution, is to retrieve the all but discarded linguistic heritage of the Korana and Griqua people of South Africa – not only for the latter-day descendants of these communities, but for all South Africans.The two opening chapters describe the linguistic classification of the language, and the sources of our earlier information about it. The third and fourth chapters describe the sounds and structures of the language while the work also includes 43 heritage texts in the original language, and a dictionary. The texts, which consist of historical narratives, accounts of cultural traditions, personal histories, folktales, and the lyrics of songs – have been newly edited and are presented with parallel translations in English.In the online version of the book, approximately one third of the dictionary entries are linked to spoken examples provided by the two elderly speakers who worked with the linguists.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with KORA: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep.. To get started finding KORA: A lost Khoisan language of the early Cape and the Gariep., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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