English - Swahili Dictionary

Author: A C Madan
Translator(s)/Editor: Frederick Johnson
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Year: 2002
Language: multilingual
Pages: 635
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120615107

Description

This Dictionary is an attempt to bring together in a convenient form materials for the study of the language most widely known throughout East and Central Africa, and to combine them in the light of a long, though in various ways limited, experience.

It would be more accurately described as an annotated vocabulary of the dialect of Swahili commonly spoken in Zanzibar city. It cannot lay claim to the formal completeness, especially in the treatment of verbs, which attaches to the idea of a dictionary, and it deals with a dialect which in respect of a large number of words is distinguished by the Swahilis themselves from the Swahili dialect of the coast.