The Languages and Peoples of Bornu

CONTENTS

Preface

Stories : —

1. A Native Letter

2. A Legend of the Saus ....

Patience

The Lion, the Jackal, and the Ground-squirrel
Derivation of * Afuno' (=:Hausa) and * Galadima
Derivation of ' Kano '

7. Riddles ....

S. The Lord's Prayer
English-Kanuri Vocabularv
kana'ri-english vocabulary
List of Kanuri Prefixes and Suffixes

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at end

SPELLING {vid. p. 86)

N.B. It must be remembered that in the Stories the spelling
is transliterated from the MSS.

THE LANGUAGES
AND PEOPLES OF BORNU

Being a Collection of the Writings of

p. A. BENTON

With an Introduction by
A. H. M. KIRK-GREENE

VOLUME ONE

NOTES ON SOME LANGUAGES OF THE
WESTERN SUDAN

FRANK CASS & CO. LTD.

1968

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Published by

FRANK CASS AND COMPANY LIMITED

67 Great Russell Street, London WCl

by arrangement with Oxford University Press

KANURI READINGS

First edition 1911

New impression 1968

PRIMER OF KANURI GRAMMAR

First edition 1917

New impression 1968

A BORNU ALMANAC

First edition 1916

New impression 1968

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