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Robert Godfrey: Lexicography: Volume 7 - Notes on Xhosa lore and language (1909–1934) (Paperback)
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Robert Godfrey: Lexicography: Volume 7 - Notes on Xhosa lore and language (1909–1934) (Paperback)
Series: The Opland Collection of Xhosa Literature
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Robert Godfrey’s major contribution to Xhosa-language studies is
his revised and expanded edition, published in 1915, of Albert
Kropf’s classic Kafir-English Dictionary (1899). As a member of
the staff of the Blythswood Institution, Godfrey edited the
Blythswood Review, and in 1924, in preparation for a third edition
of the Dictionary, he commenced an extended series of articles
under the title Lexicography. Through these columns he invited his
readers to supply him with the Xhosa names for birds and animals.
The scope and range of the articles expanded, and he increasingly
incorporated into his column quotations from pupils’ essays on
Xhosa lore and language. Selections from these articles comprise
Godfrey’s Bird-lore of the Eastern Cape Province (1941), now long
out of print, and an article that Godfrey wrote on John Bennie
(1934), but the articles as originally printed and as assembled
here contain considerably more information, on a wider range of
topics, and demonstrate the development of his knowledge.
Godfrey’s contributions to the Blythswood Review contain
invaluable knowledge on aspects of the domestic lives and language
of the Xhosa-speaking peoples, much of it expressed in the Xhosa
words of his informants, information on proverbs and riddles and
taboos, on children’s games and bird-lore, on hlonipha words and
the Xhosa words for flora and fauna, on the months of the year and
place names, on Xhosa grammmar and the linguistic achievements of
John Bennie, whose transcription of the Xhosa language became the
earliest standard spelling system. Also included in this volume is
an extensive collated list of lexical definitions intended for
inclusion in the third edition of the Dictionary, which in the
event was never published. Altogether, this collection of
Godfrey’s articles constitutes a significant source of
information on the folklore of the Xhosa-speaking peoples and the
state of their language in the early decades of the twentieth
century.
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