Research Catalog

Title

The Akie language of Tanzania : texts and dictionary / Christa König, Bernd Heine, Karsten Legère, and Ingo Heine.

Author

König, Christa

Publication

• Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, [2020]
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Heine, Bernd, 1939-
• Legère, Karsten.
• Heine, Ingo.

Description

332 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

There are few traditional hunter-gatherer societies left in the world. The Akie of the Maasai Steppe of Tanzania are one of them. The Akie call themselves "akie" (sg. akiántee) and their language "kuuti táá akie" ('mouth of the Akie people'). The Akie inhabit the Kilindi District of Tanga Region and the Kiteto and Simanjiro Districts of Manyara Region of north-central Tanzania. Most of their homesteads are located in the mountaneous regions at the periphery of villages, and they are claimed to have been living in this general area long before all their neighbors arrived. The Akie language is a member of the Kalenjin language cluster, which belongs to the Southern Nilotic branch of the Nilotic family. The latter has been classified as belonging to the Eastern Sudanic branch of the Nilo-Saharan phylum, a genetic unit which was proposed by Greenberg (1963) but is not entirely uncontroversial. The language is endangered (Heine et al. 2014; 2015a), there are hardly more than 250 speakers left. Jointly with the grammatical treatment of the Akie language that was presented earlier (König et al. 2015a), this study is intended to contribute to the documentation of the language and their culture. The main objective of the project was to video-record the use of and the knowledge that the Akie have about their language. The texts presented in Part 4 constitute only a selection of all the texts collected in the course of our research. The lexical treatment in Parts 5 and 6 are not conceived as a comprehensive dictionary. Nevertheless, an attempt was made to document as much as possible of the cultural knowledge as it surfaces from the lexical resources found in our collection of Akie texts.

Series Statement

East African languages and dialects ; volume 29

Uniform Title

East African languages and dialects ; v. 29.

Subject

• Okiek language > Texts
• Okiek language > Dictionaries > English
• Okiek (African people) > Tanzania
• Kalenjin language
• Okiek (African people)
• Okiek language
• Tanzania

Genre/Form

• Dictionaries.
• Texts.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-332).

ISBN

• 9783896457141
• 3896457144

OCLC

• on1205590639
• SCSB-13579336

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library