Afrikaans language
Here are entered works on the language spoken and written by the descendants of the Dutch colonists in South Africa which gradually evolved and differentiated from the Dutch South African dialects of the earlier periods. Works on Dutch South African dialects not conforming to Dutch as spoken or written in the Netherlands are entered under Dutch language -- Dialects -- South Africa.
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Broader terms:Used for:- Afrikander language
- Cape Dutch language
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Die Sprache der Buren: Einleitung, Sprachlehre und Sprachproben (in German; Göttingen, F. Wunder, 1901), by Heinrich Meyer
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Germanic languages- An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1956 reprint with commentary), by Elizabeth Elstob, contrib. by Charles Peake (Gutenberg text)
- A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language, With Especial Reference to English and German, by G. H. Balg, contrib. by Francis Andrew March
- An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
- Online Etymology Dictionary, by Douglas R. Harper (searchable HTML at etymonline.com)
- The Origin of Medical Terms (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1949), by Henry Alan Skinner (page images at HathiTrust)
- A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (second edition, 2017), ed. by Stefan Dollinger and Margery Fee (illustrated HTML with commentary at dchp.ca)
- Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- A Dictionary of the Old English Language, Compiled From Writings of the XII, XIII, XIV, AND XV Centuries (second edition, 1873), by Francis Henry Stratmann
- Dictionary of the Scots Language (electronic edition) (searchable HTML in the UK)
- Culinary Linguistics: The Chef's Special (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2013), ed. by Cornelia Gerhardt, Maximiliane Frobenius, and Susanne Hucklenbroich-Ley (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- On the Study of Words, by Richard Chenevix Trench (Gutenberg text)
- A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- Die Siedelungen in Anhalt: Ortschaften und Wüstungen, mit Erklärung ihrer Namen (in German; Halle a.S.: Waisenhaus, 1905), by Gustav Hey and Karl Schulze
- Om Navnet Ýmir (in Danish; Copenhagen: B. Lunos Boktrykkeri, 1874), by Konráð Gíslason (page images at HathiTrust)
- Svensk Bygd i Österbotten, Nu och Fordom: En Namnunders¨kning (2 volumes (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland #155 and #171) in Swedish; Helsinki, 1921-1923), by T. E. Karsten
- Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok (in Norwegian; Kristiania: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), 1919), by Alf Torp
- Da Kine Talk: From Pidgin to Standard English in Hawaii (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972), by Elizabeth Ball Carr, contrib. by Dong Jae Lee (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)
- The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
- The Englishing of French Words; The Dialectical Words in Blunden's Poems, etc. (Society for Pure English tract 5; 1921), by Brander Matthews and Robert Bridges (Gutenberg text)
- A Few Practical Suggestions (Society for Pure English Tract #3; 1920), by Logan Pearsall Smith (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Letters to 'Squire Pedant, in the East (second edition; Cincinnati: Applegate and Co., 1856), by Samuel K. Hoshour
- Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, As Are At Present Used in the English Tongue, With Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. (London: Printed for D. Brown, et al., 1707), contrib. by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson-Jobson: The Anglo-Indian Dictionary, by Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- On Some Words Derived From Languages of the N. American Indians (extract from the Transactions of the American Philological Association, 1872), by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
- English Pattern Practices: Establishing the Patterns as Habits (revised edition of part of "An Intensive Course in English"; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1958), by University of Michigan English Language Institute, contrib. by Robert Lado and Charles C. Fries (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Analytic and Practical Grammar of the English Language (Raleigh, NC: N. C. Christian Advocate Pub. Co., 1864), by Peter Bullions and B. Craven
- An Analytical, Illustrative, And Constructive Grammar of the English Language (third edition; Raleigh, NC: W. L. Pomeroy, 1862), by Brantley York
- An English Grammar, for the Use of High School, Academy, and College Classes (1895), by William Malone Baskervill and James Witt Sewell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- First Lessons in Composition (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1870), by G. P. Quackenbos
- A Grammar of the English Language (Philadelphia: Sower, Barnes and Potts, 1866), by William Fewsmith and Edgar A. Singer
- Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition (revised edition, 1896), by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg (Gutenberg text)
- Mary's Grammar: Interspersed With Stories, and Intended for the Use of Children (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1835), by Mrs. Marcet
- An Outline of English Speech-Craft (London: C. Kegan Paul and Co., 1878), by William Barnes (Gutenberg text)
- Pinneo's Analytical Grammar of the English Language, Designed for Schools (revised and enlarged; New York: Clark, Austin, and Smith; Cincinnati: W. B. Smith and Co., c1850), by T. S. Pinneo
- A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases, and Sentences Are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams (revised edition; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; et al., 1863), by S. W. Clark (multiple formats at Google)
- A Practical Grammar: In Which Words, Phrases, and Sentences Are Classified According to Their Offices, and Their Various Relations to One Another Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams (40th edition, revised; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1868), by S. W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
- Self-Aids in the Essentials of Grammatical Usage (revised edition; Washington: Educational and Personnel Pub. Co., c1927), by L. J. O'Rourke (page images at HathiTrust)
- First Book in Composition, Applying the Principles of Grammar to the Art of Composing: Also, Giving Full Directions for Punctuation; Especially Designed for the Use of Southern Schools (Raleigh: Branson, Farrar and Co., 1863), by L. Branson
- A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic Languages (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2018), by R. D. Fulk (PDF at John Benjamins e-Platform)
- From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English Language Yesterday and Today (festschrift honoring Nils-Lennart Johanneson; Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, c2015), ed. by Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sundskist (multiple formats with commentary at Stockholm University Press)
- Impenetrability: or, The Proper Habit of English (London: Pub. by L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926), by Robert Graves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The English Language (New York: H. Holt and Co.; London: Williams and Norgate, c1912), by Logan Pearsall Smith (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)
- An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1956 reprint with commentary), by Elizabeth Elstob, contrib. by Charles Peake (Gutenberg text)
- Proeve eener Geschiedenis der Dichtkunst en Fraaije Letteren Onder de Angel-Saksen (in Dutch; Amsterdam: J. F. Schleijer, 1842; bound with "Caedmon, de Vader der Angelsaksische Poëzy" by "W.", from 1845), by J. P. Arend (page images at HathiTrust)
- Einleitung zu Einer Amringisch-Föhringischen Sprachlehre (in German; Norden and Leipzig: D. Soltau, 1888), by Otto Bremer
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