| 释义 |
Dagbani, n. and a.
Brit. |dagˈbɑːni|, |dʌgˈbɑːni|, U.S. |ˌdægˈbɑni|
Plural unchanged
Forms: α. 19– Dagbane, 19– Dagbani, 19– Dagbone; β. 19– Dagbanli
[‹ Dagbani Dagbani, Dagbanli.
In Dagbani Dagbani the orthographic sequence gb represents a single consonant phoneme.]
A. n. A language of north-eastern Ghana, belonging to the Gur branch of the Niger-Congo family. Also occas.: a member of the people who speak this language. Cf. Mole–Dagbani n.
1913Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 12 317 Dr. Fisch has also given us a useful grammar. The language is called Dagbane: the people Dagbamba. 1917S. Okarku Dagomba Gram. 1 The best Dagbõne is spoken at Yendi, Savelugu, Kunbungu and other towns under the rule of Yendi princes. 1953Evening Standard (Uniontown, Pa.) 30 Dec. 6/8 The British and Foreign Bible Society has arranged for the first printing of the four Gospels in Dagbani. 1973Jrnl. Negro Educ. 42 520 Bambaya, a man's social dance of the Dagbani from Northern Nigeria. 1992Courier (Waterloo, Iowa) 23 Aug. c1/4 Yet another language to go with the smatterings of Fanti, Dagbani, and Ga he picked up in Ghana. 2005H. Weiss in U. van der Heyden & H. Stoecker Mission und Macht 183 Though it could be possible to introduce Dagbanli as the local school and church language in northern Togo, he underlined that Hausa..was too important to be neglected by the missionaries.
B. adj. (attrib.). Of or designating this language or its speakers. Cf. Mole–Dagbani adj.
1917J. A. S. Okraku Dagomba Gram. 1 Dagbone language..is spoken..in the country known as Dagomba (but called Dagbon by the natives). 1938Man 38 80/1 The word for the Earth or Land teŋ..becomes tɔŋ in compound words in the Dagbane dialects. 1967Afr. Stud. Bull. 10 95 Further dissertations in progress:..‘Dagbani Syntax’, by W. A. A. Wilson (now in Ghana). 1971Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 9 10 [The ethnomusicologist] gave instruction in the variations of Ashanti Adowa, Anlo Ewe Agbadza, and Dagbani dances. 2006Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Dec. b12, The women..told the former journalist through a Dagbani interpreter that the village projects had given them greater independence. |