Ebook: Intermediate Gambian Mandinka-English Dictionary

Publisher: D.P. Gamble
Date: 1987
Pages: 137
Language: EnglishA number of Mandinka-English dictionaries are in existence. In 1955 I prepared in mimeographed form an Elementary Mandinka Sentence Book (35 pp.) and a Mandinka-English Dictionary (66 pp.), which were issued under the auspices of the Research Department of the Colonial Office. These were revisions of earlier material, and the by-product of research in The Gambia into socioconomic conditions in Mandinka communities up river, particularly in Baddibu and Kiang. These are still popular with those beginning to learn Mandinka. Unauthorised versions have been reproduced in The Gambia, and are still occasionally to be found on sale.
Another dictionary was prepared by George 0 Halloran while working on a literacy project at enieri (Jenyer) in1948 (Mandinka-English Dictionary), a number of carbon copies being distributed to those with an interest in the language.