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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
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
