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(1) IT is curious that so many industrious JL persons have issued, in the course of the last eighty years, one-sided dictionaries of Kafir (Xosa) dialect of the great Zulu language, and that no one that I know of has published a full English-Kafir dictionary. Such works as those under review are, of course, valuable, but they would be twice as useful if, in addition to Kafir-English, an English-Kafir section was added. English-speaking people in South Africa will not find the work now under review of as much use or importance as philologists, because it will need endless searching to find therein the equivalent of some English word which they wish to translate into Kafir.
(1) A Concise Kaffir-English Dictionary.
By J. McLaren. Pp. xv + 194. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1915.) Price 3s. 6d.
(2) A Manual of the Chikaranga Language.
By C. S. Louw. Pp. x + 397. (Bulawayo: Philpott and Collins, 1915.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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JOHNSTON, H. (1) A Concise Kaffir-English Dictionary (2) A Manual of the Chikaranga Language . Nature 96, 336–337 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/096336a0
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