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TUKI 2004. Kamusi ya Kiswahili Sanifu. Toleo la Pili. [A standard Swahili dictionary. Second edition]. Nairobi: Oxford University Press. xviii, 477 pp. ISBN 0195732227. (ca. 15000 ThS/ 15.- €)

Book review: In 2004 the long awaited second edition of the Standard Swahili - Swahili Dictionary, edited by the Insitute of Kiswahili Research (TUKI) at the University of Dar es Salaam, appeared. With this publication TUKI has once again confirmed its leading role in the field of Swahili lexicography in East Africa. it is up to date, containing new words and phrases which are in use in East Africa in order to cope with the development in science and technology, society, economics and globalization.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:15-qucosa-91314
Date14 August 2012
CreatorsHerms, Irmtraud
ContributorsUniversität Mainz, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
PublisherUniversitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
SourceSwahili Forum 12 (2005), S. 235-240

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