DRAFT - 7/20/2006 English to Dinka Glossary Derived from SIL International's 2005 Draft Dinka-English dictionary For use alongside that dictionary Draft- for comment - 9 May 2006 Contact: Mike Brisco: Dept Haematology, School of Medicine, Flinders University of S Australia, Bedford Park, S Australia 5042
[email protected] tel (0061) 8 8204 4105 1 DRAFT - 7/20/2006 This document is derived from the draft Dinka-English dictionary, created by SIL International, in 2005. SIL is a not-for-profit, faith-based linguistics organization, specializing in languages that are not spoken widely. Their Dinka-English dictionary was mainly the work of John Duerksen. Roger Blench produced a Unicode version of the draft Dinka-English dictionary, available from his website. Blench kindly supplied a copy suitable for processing, and gave permission for copying. Sources: almost all entries are from the SIL/Duerksen work. Entries from Idris' 2004 paper, plus others from the web, are identified by (HFI) and (MJB) respectively. My understanding of lexicography, Dinka language, and Dinka culture, are very limited. I apologise, in advance, for any errors that are here. I shall be happy to correct them. Mike Brisco, 20 may 06 SIL http://www.sil.org/ Roger Blench's website & draft Dinka to English lexicon -see http://homepage.ntlworld.com/roger_blench/Language%20data.htm Idris, HF (2004): Modern Developments in the Dinka language. Goteborg African Informal Series - No3; Dept of Oriental and African languages, Goteborg University Sweden http://www.african.gu.se/downloads/gais03dinka.pdf 2 DRAFT - 7/20/2006 There is a need for a readily available English to Dinka dictionary.