logoBIBLIOGRAPHY


There is a very large choice of Swahili handbooks in English. We have only selected here "vintage books", that offer pioneering groundwork on the Swahili language. More recent handbooks can be found in many bookshops, online or otherwise.


HANDBOOKS


SIMPLIFIED SWAHILI - P.M. Wilson, 1970. East African Litterature Bureau, P.O. Box 1408, Dar es Salaam. P.O. Box 30022, Nairobi.


SWAHILI LANGUAGE HANDBOOK - Edgar C. Polomé, 1967. Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C..


SWAHILI - D.V. Perrot, 1951. Teach Yourself Books, ST Paul's House, Warwick Lane, London EC4.


SWAHILI GRAMMAR - E.O. Ashton, 1947. Longmans, Green and Co Ltd. (Longman Group UK Limited, Longman House, Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England.)


AIDS TO THE STUDY OF KI-SWAHILI : Four Studies compiled and annotated - Mervyn Worcester Howard Beech, 1918. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & CO. Ltd., New York.  Digitalized by Microsoft


A GRAMMAR OF DIALECTIC CHANGES IN THE KISWAHILI LANGUAGE. With an introduction and a recension and poetical translation of the poem Inkishafi - Chauncy Hugh Stigand ; William Ernest Taylor, 1915. Cambridge University Press.  Digitalized by Microsoft


SWAHILI GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY - Mrs F. Burt, 1910. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland Avenue W.C.  Digitalized by Microsoft


A HANDBOOK OF THE SWAHILI LANGUAGE - Edward Steere & A.C. Madan, 1894. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland Avenue W.C. : 43 Queen Victoria Street.  Digitalized by Microsoft


SWAHILI EXERCISES - Edward Steere ; Augustine Beale Hellier, 1882. George Bell & Sons, York Street, covent Garden, London.  Digitalized by Google


A DICTIONARY OF THE SUAHILI LANGUAGE, with introduction containing an outline of a Suahili Grammar - Johann Ludwig Krapf, 1882. Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill.  Digitalized by Google


SWAHILI STORIES from Arab sources, with an English translation - 1881. Zanzibar.  Digitalized by Google


SWAHILI TALES, as told by natives of Zanzibar - Edward Steere, 1870. Bell and Daldy, York Street, covent Garden, London.  Digitalized by National Library of Scotland



DICTIONARIES


STANDARD SWAHILI - ENGLISH DICTIONARY - Frederick Johnson, 1939, Oxford University Press.


STANDARD ENGLISH - SWAHILI DICTIONARY - Frederick Johnson, 1939, Oxford University Press.


SWAHILI-ENGLISH DICTIONARY - Arthur Cornwallis Madan, 1903. Oxford clarendon Press.   Digitalized by Microsoft



BANTU ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY


BANTU ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY  Compiled by Jouni Filip Maho