Author: Benton, P. Askell
Title: The Languages and Peoples of Bornu. Volume 2. Comprising: Kanuri Readings; Primer of Kanuri Grammar ; A Bornu Almanac
Description: London, Frank Cass, 1968. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. (373) pp,, 22x14cm, In a rubbed, chipped & soiled dustwrapper. Some top page-edge soil.. Rubbed. Light binding corner bumps. Flyleaves foxed. Good. ¶ With an introduction by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene. Consists of facsimile reprints of: 1) "Kanuri Readings Including Facsimiles of MSS, Transliteration, Interlinear Translation and Notes also a Complete English-Kanuri Vocabulary and a Partial Kanuri-English Vocabulary" [1911; 110, (14) pp]; 2) "Primer of Kanuri Grammar Translated and Revised from the German of A. von Duisburg" [1917; 130 pp]; 3) "A Bornu Almanac for the Year A.D. 1916 ( A.H. 1334 and Part of 1335)" [1916, 119 pp].

Keywords: Nilo-Saharan Linguistics, Nigeria, Bornu, Ethnolinguistics, Ethnography, Kanuri Language, African Languages, West Africa,