Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

Sergio Baldi

Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
19 October 2023
Pages
352
ISBN
9789004549227

Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa

Sergio Baldi

The main purpose of this dictionary is twofold. On the one hand, it provides the scholar of African studies with a tool to identify the possible Portuguese origin of terms present in African languages and, on the other, it offers those who are interested in Portuguese culture an overview of the presence of its lexicon in African languages. No doubt the Portuguese were among the first Europeans to explore the world outside of Europe, and as such they were also the first to introduce that world to European concepts and words.This book is the result of a long and detailed work on texts in African languages, as also shown by the rich bibliography in the dictionary.

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