A Khoekhoegowab dictionary with an English-Khoekhoegowab index

A Khoekhoegowab dictionary with an English-Khoekhoegowab index

by Wilfrid H. G. Haacke, Eliphas Eiseb

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>This bilingual dictionary of Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara), a Central Khoesaan language today confined almost entirely to Namibia, aims to document extensively the lexicon of this endangered language. The book contains over 24 500 Khoekhoegowab entries, including some 2 700 examples of usage. - back cover

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