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Download full textLeslau, Wolf – 1972
This basic dictionary, consisting of two sections, Amharic-English and English-Amharic, is the first such dictionary written since 1920. Since there is a considerable lack of consistency in Amharic spelling, the Amharic orthography used here has been standardized through etymological studies. Whenever necessary, English expressions are given in…
Descriptors: Amharic, Dictionaries, English, Etymology
Huffman, Franklin E.; Proum, Im – 1978
The main purpose of this dictionary is to provide a corpus of basic words and phrases in standard Khmer useful for Western students of Khmer. The dictionary contains 40,000 English entries and subentries. Subentries were chosen to reflect not only the semantic structure of English, but also the semantic structure and content of Khmer. The second…
Descriptors: Austro Asiatic Languages, Cambodian, Definitions, Dictionaries
Wrenn, James J. – 1974
The final report on a project to develop a standard corpus of present-day Mandarin Chinese is presented. This corpus consists of words of running text of Chinese prose printed in the Republic of China during the calendar year 1968. The corpus, although originally planned to have a total of 500 samples of 2000 words each, has only 294 samples. Each…
Descriptors: Chinese, Codification, Computational Linguistics, Data Collection
Berntsen, Maxine; Nimbkar, Jai – 1975
This intermediate reader containing 15 stories has been designed for the adult learner of Marathi with an elementary knowledge of the language. It is intended to increase the students' reading skills and introduce them to some main themes in Maharashtrian life and literature. A brief introduction in English precedes some of the stories. The second…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Dictionaries, Indo European Languages, Instructional Materials
Berntsen, Maxine; Nimbkar, Jai – 1975
This advanced reader, containing ten stories, is designed for adult students of Marathi with an intermediate knowledge of the language. It is intended to increase the students' reading skills and introduce them to some main themes in Maharashtrian life and literature. The selections deal primarily with women and marriage, and religion. It is felt…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Dictionaries, Indo European Languages, Instructional Materials
Barker, Muhammad Abd-Al-Rahman; And Others – 1977
This is the third of three volumes intended to be used as pedagogical materials in advanced Urdu courses at Western colleges and universities. An optional set of tape recordings and an optional set of 35mm slides accompany the three-volume work. Volume III first includes an appendix describing the phonemic alphabet (with rough correspondences to…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Form Classes (Languages), Higher Education, Instructional Materials
