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This is a complete EkeGusii-Kiswahili-English dictionary that provides definitions for EkeGusii words. The work has been compiled for over fourteen years of collecting lexemes from the native speakers of the language. The respondents, who provided the raw data, range from former teachers of EkeGusii as a mother tongue to indigenous knowledge experts in the Gusii community. Linguists with expertise in lexicography, phonetics, and translation and interpretation, drawn from the Linguistics department, Kisii University, worked on the technical details. Herein lies the uniqueness of this work: it presents more than mere definitions of word tokens. This edition serves as a template for further exploration, future expansion, and development of orthographic conventions in the language.
The dictionary offers the following:
– Meanings of EkeGusii words with Kiswahili, and English translations.
– Abbreviations and proper nouns.
– Grammatical constructions.
– Concise sentences to serve as illustrative examples in EkeGusii.
– Broad transcription of words, using the IPA format, as guide to pronunciation.
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Tina (verified owner) –
I like that an attempt was made to compile this Ekegusii dictionary. That said, it is a terrible dictionary if you can even call it that.
1. First of all, a lot of words are missing. A lot.
2. It is meant to be a trilingual dictionary but some definitions do not have the English and Kiswahili translations.
3. A lot of the word entries are in plural form and not in their singular form which makes it really hard to search for entries
4. A lot of the word entries are in their diminutive or the augmentative form of words and not their basic form which again makes no sense whatsoever for a dictionary
5. Lots of spelling errors in all 3 languages
I am not sure if there is a different Ekegusii dictionary out there, but I would highly recommend not getting this one especially if your aim is to learn the language.