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Omiano vya Tjipangandjara Otjiherero Proverbs and Idioms.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : University of Namibia Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (212 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789991642086
  • 9991642080
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN6519 .O453 2013
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Contents:
Bibliography; Ohunga nOmutjange; About the Author; Back cover
Subject: Omiano vya Tjipangandjara: Otjiherero Proverbs and Idioms is a unique collection of linguistic and cultural significance. The author has collected over 150 proverbs and idioms from the Ovaherero community, particularly the Ovakaoko, in Namibia, and from various written sources. He encourages the use of these proverbs as a means of cultural enrichment, since younger speakers of Otjiherero tend to use and/or translate English or Afrikaans proverbs. Concise and extensively researched, this book distinguishes between proverbs and idioms; gives the literal English translation; the origin; general m.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PN6519.33 .38 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn863824622

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Embo rOkomeho; Preface; Ondangu; Acknowledgements; Ombutiro; Introduction; Omiano vya Tjipangandjara.PROVERBS; Omiano omitorokwa.CALQUES; Omiano vyohungiriro.IDIOMS; Ozomburo -- Bibliography; Ohunga nOmutjange; About the Author; Back cover

Omiano vya Tjipangandjara: Otjiherero Proverbs and Idioms is a unique collection of linguistic and cultural significance. The author has collected over 150 proverbs and idioms from the Ovaherero community, particularly the Ovakaoko, in Namibia, and from various written sources. He encourages the use of these proverbs as a means of cultural enrichment, since younger speakers of Otjiherero tend to use and/or translate English or Afrikaans proverbs. Concise and extensively researched, this book distinguishes between proverbs and idioms; gives the literal English translation; the origin; general m.

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