Nyakyusa: English-Swahili Dictionary

A trilingual Nyakyusa-English-Swahili dictionary compiled by Knut Felberg, a Norwegian volunteer teacher in Ipinda, Tukuyu, southwestern Tanzania. Unhappy with the policy of using English as the medium of instruction in secondary schools, which left his students bewildered, Felberg decided that his students would probably cope with the foreign language only after they were grounded first in the structure of their own languages, Nyakyusa and Swahili. As no trilingual dictionary was available, he set out to compile one, and this well-produced reference is the product. Words, examples, and usages are included. A resource for Nyakyusa speakers learning English or Swahili, Swahili speakers encountering Nyakyusa, and linguists studying the Bantu languages of southwestern Tanzania. Internationally distributed by African Books Collective.