Author

Publication

1996 - Maasai Centre Lemek, [Lemek, Kenya]

Language

English

Word Count

102,750 words, Guess

Page Count

411 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC496/.5
  • LCCPL8501.4 .M65 1996

Alternate Titles

  • Maasai language and culture

Description

"The Maasai, basically a cattle-keeping people, live in East Africa on both sides of the Kenya-Tanzania border. . . . [Their] language and culture [are] under great stress and pressure from present-day ideas of modern life. . . . Maasai children learn their language from their mothers, but most of these children when they go to school will never learn to read or write in their mother tongue. None of them will ever know the basics of the grammar of their own language. This book tries to preserve as much as possible of Maa, the language, and Olmaa, the culture. It may best be described as a depository of linguistic and cultural data of the Maasai." -- Introduction, p. iii.

Subjects

Topics

EnglishDictionariesMasai languageMaasai languageMasai language -- Dictionaries -- English

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