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Few People, Many Tongues: The Languages of Namibia

Maho, Jouni F. 1998. Few People, Many Tongues: The Languages of Namibia. Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmillan. x+222pp. (Survey of the linguistic typology and the sociolinguistics of the Namibian languages. Revision (heavy) of Maho (1993).)

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Comments on speakers
"Otjiherero is recognised as a national language and is thus used in education, administration and radio broadcasting."

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Namibia

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Other Languages Used By The Community
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Writing Systems
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Comments on writing systems:
"The orthography for Otjiherero was first published in 1968, and revised in 1974 and 1933. As for the linguistic publications on Otjiherero, much of these seem to published in German (especially the earlier literature). Probably the earliest comprehensive grammar, written in German, was published by (1857). Several other grammars have since been published, for instance Kolbe (1888), Brincker (1897), Viehe (1897), Meinhof (1928) and Vedder (1958), all in German, and Booysen (1982), written in Afrikaans. With regard to dictionaries, among the early ones we can note an English- Otjiherero dictionary compiled by Kolbe (1883), an Otjiherero-German by Brincker (1886) and a German-Otjiherero by Irle (1917a). More recent dictionaries include an English-Otjiherero/Otjiherero-English by Gestwicki (1966), and a Otjiherero-Afrikaans-English/Afrikaans-Otjiherero/English- Otjiherero by Viljoen & Kamupingene (1983)."

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