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A Hausa-English Dictionary (review)

A Hausa-English Dictionary (review) 2010 BOOK REVIEWS 111 Danielsen, Swintha, Michael Dunn, and Pieter Muysken in press The Role of Contact in the Spreading of Arawak Languages. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory, edited by Jonathan Hill and Alf Hornborg. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Fabre, Alain 1995 Lexical Similarities between Uru-Chipaya and Pano-Tukanoan Languages: Genetic Relationship or Areal Diffusion? Opción 11(18):45—73. Payne, David. L. 1987 Some Morphological Elements of Maipuran Arawakan: Agreement Affixes and the Genitive Construction. Language Sciences 9(1):57—75. Vellard, Jehan 1967 Contribución al estudio de la lengua uru. Buenos Aires: Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos, Universidad de Buenos Aires. A Hausa-English Dictionary. PAUL NEWMAN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv + 243. $65.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Mahamane L. Abdoulaye, Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey, Niger This Hausa-English dictionary by Paul Newman is designed to match Roxana Ma Newman’s English-Hausa dictionary (1990), and the two volumes form an essential tool for English speakers interested in Hausa and vice versa. Translators in particular, who relied for years on the English-Hausa dictionary, will welcome the new dictionary, which is compact, yet a treasury of words necessary to comprehend all facets of Hausa life and culture. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anthropological Linguistics University of Nebraska Press

A Hausa-English Dictionary (review)

Anthropological Linguistics , Volume 52 (1) – Dec 10, 2010

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2010 BOOK REVIEWS 111 Danielsen, Swintha, Michael Dunn, and Pieter Muysken in press The Role of Contact in the Spreading of Arawak Languages. In Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory, edited by Jonathan Hill and Alf Hornborg. Boulder: University Press of Colorado. Fabre, Alain 1995 Lexical Similarities between Uru-Chipaya and Pano-Tukanoan Languages: Genetic Relationship or Areal Diffusion? Opción 11(18):45—73. Payne, David. L. 1987 Some Morphological Elements of Maipuran Arawakan: Agreement Affixes and the Genitive Construction. Language Sciences 9(1):57—75. Vellard, Jehan 1967 Contribución al estudio de la lengua uru. Buenos Aires: Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos, Universidad de Buenos Aires. A Hausa-English Dictionary. PAUL NEWMAN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xxiv + 243. $65.00 (hardcover). Reviewed by Mahamane L. Abdoulaye, Abdou Moumouni University, Niamey, Niger This Hausa-English dictionary by Paul Newman is designed to match Roxana Ma Newman’s English-Hausa dictionary (1990), and the two volumes form an essential tool for English speakers interested in Hausa and vice versa. Translators in particular, who relied for years on the English-Hausa dictionary, will welcome the new dictionary, which is compact, yet a treasury of words necessary to comprehend all facets of Hausa life and culture. The

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