Ebook: Nuer-English Dictionary

Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1929. - 65 p.The Nuer tribe is large and various estimates are made as to their number. At the Rejaf Language Conference in 1928, their number was given as 430,
000.They occupy a large area in the southern part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, along the Sobat river in the Nasser and Abwong districts and on the Zeraf island and along the Nile river.
Little has been published about this pagan tribe by those who have lived among them for any time. But little has been done to reduce the language of this illiterate tribe to writing. There are several dialects but the differences are slight. This language is rich in folklore. The words given here are but a small portion of what one may hope to find.
The words tabulated here have been collected from every source to which I have liad access during the four and one-half years I have spent in Nuerland.
Words have been given me by other missionaries, those contained in the school books as well as those which I have learned directly from the Nuers themselves during my residence among them, have been listed.After the first draft of this dictionary was made, every word was reviewed with the help of from one to six Nuers and this book as published is the final result.