Buy this book on-line Hamlyn, W. T : A Short Study of the Western Mandinka Language(London: The Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1935)
Crown 8vo; original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; pp. xvi + 110. Extremities slightly frayed and bumped; spine sunned, and discoloured at head; moderate foxing to endpapers and edges; occasional spotting elsewhere. Good. (Murphy & Goff 428) "William Temple Hamlyn died of fever in Bathurst Hospital on the 5th of November 1934, after only five days' illness. One of his last deeds was the correction of the proofs of this little book, some of the fruit of his scanty leisure during the past eight years. To the Africans of the Gambia and to all who knew him, the genial, happy and unassuming nature of the author shines through the necessarily prosaic details of his Mandinka Grammar." - From the Introduction by A. F. Richards. "The Mandinka language which is spoken in the Gambia and its environs belongs to the western branch of the Mandinka or Malinke family, which is one of the Sudanic group of languages, and which in its various forms is spoken over a very large area of West Africa, reaching from the Gambia to the upper Niger, and from the southern edge of the Sahara to the hinterland of Liberia and the Ivory Coast." - From the author's Preface. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Hamlyn, W. T : A Short Study of the Western Mandinka Language. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres rares, livres anciens, first editions, atlases and collectables. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |