A Tri-Lingual Dictionary of Emberß-Spanish-English

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-3-89586-672-2
Verlag: LINCOM

Buch, Englisch, Spanisch, Band 38, 450 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Languages of the World/Dictionaries

Emberß is a Central American Indian Language belonging to the Choco grouping. It is Spoken in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in unequal proportions. This study is based on the Emberß dialect spoken in Panama. Though the statistics vary, the number of native speakers is no more than sixty thousand. In Panama, the number of speakers is no more than twenty thousand. There are no studies in English on Emberß, and a very few in Spanish. This dictionary is based on information and elicitations from the native speaker Mr. Daniel Castañeda.

This is the first attempt at a collection of the basic lexical items of the language, and it is first in English and Spanish. Mr. Castañeda is a bilingual speaker of Spanish and Emberß, with limited fluency in English. All elicitations were done through the medium of Spanish at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. while he was residing in the area. For ease of use the dictionary is multi-directional, i.e. Emberß-Spanish-English and Spanish-Emberß-English. Even though this dialect differs from Chamí dialect, this dictionary can serve as a companion to the grammar of Emberß by D.A. Licht, also published by LINCOM EUROPA.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sara, Solomon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Solomon Sara, Georgetown University