A Handbook of the Ateso Language (Classic Reprint)
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2017
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Print on Demand. This book delves into the intricacies of the Ateso language, a dialect spoken by a vibrant community residing in the Eastern Province of the Uganda Protectorate. The author meticulously dissects the language's structure, offering a comprehensive analysis of its unique features. Readers are transported to a time of burgeoning cultural exchange, where the Ateso people, while embracing elements of European life, strive to preserve their linguistic heritage. The author skillfully positions the Ateso language within the broader context of Nilotic languages, highlighting its fascinating connections to Masai and other regional dialects. Through detailed grammatical breakdowns and insightful comparisons, the book unveils the richness and expressive capacity of Ateso. The author's passion for the language shines through, offering a valuable resource for both language enthusiasts and those seeking to understand the cultural nuances of this remarkable community. Ultimately, this book stands as a testament to the enduring power of language and its profound connection to cultural identity. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.…
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- Title
- A Handbook of the Ateso Language (Classic Reprint)
- Author
- Arthur Leonard Kitching
- Publisher
- Forgotten Books
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- print-on-demand item
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- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0282439544
- ISBN 13
- 9780282439545
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- Learning Foreign Languages
The Ateso dialect is spoken by a tribe of some people living between Lake Kioga and Mt. Elgon in the Eastern Province of the Uganda Protectorate.' The Teso are a cheerful, industrious people, amenable to control and eminently teachable. Although now for some six. Years only in close contact with civilization, the tribe has. Made phenomenally rapid progress in the arts of peace; the culti vation of cotton and labour on the construction of metalled roads has provided even the poorest peasants with abundant cash, and European articles, from cigarettes to bicycles, are in eager demand.
Yet the name of this tribe does not appear, so far as the writer is aware, in any of the works on the peoples of the Uganda Protectorate. The Teso appear to belong to the same Nilotic group as the Nandi, Turkana and Karamojo tribes, and the language has affinities with Masai. The dialect is given by Sir H. H. Johnston, in his work The Uganda Protectorate, as Elgumi, a name which the Rev. W. Crabtree suggests has been applied to the tribe by the Masai (engame the nose) owing to the frequent occurrence of the velar nasal fig. It is, however, doubtful if the sound in question is associated by natives with nasal utterance; it is more prob able that the word is the Masai I lkume, one of their names for the Turkana tribe, who speak a dialect nearly resembling Ateso.
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