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1	Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache more books like this by Keith H Basso add to wishlist Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache. see all copies from $7.46! new only from $17.83! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Lonely Planet Swahili Phrasebook more books like this by Martin Benjamin add to wishlist comprehensive food section, etiquette & cultural tips easy-to-use pronunciation guide sections include phrases for finding accommodation & for hitting the town useful suggestions for health needs & emergencies extensive two-way dictionary & user-friendly sentence builder Swahili is spoken in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, the Comoros and is the most ... see all copies from $2.97! new only from $5.96! \| SVS
3	Bemba-English/English-Bemba Compact Dictionary more books like this by E Hoch add to wishlist This dictionary focuses on popular words and phrases, compiled to assist students of Bemba or English. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98!
4	Concise Amharic Dictionary more books like this by Wolf Leslau add to wishlist Although Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia and English its international language, until publication of this book in hardcover there was no concise Amharic-English, English-Amharic dictionary. Students of Amharic as well as visitors to Ethiopia and foreign workers will benefit from this concise dictionary with phonetic transcriptions ... see all copies from $21.50! new only from $34.36! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Colloquial Somali: The Complete Course for Beginners more books like this by Martin Orwin add to wishlist Colloquial Somali is easy to use and completely essential. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Somali. see all copies from $27.21! new only from $38.27! \| SVS
6	Teach Yourself Swahili Complete Course Package (Book + 2cds) more books like this by Joan Russell, Russell Joan add to wishlist Bestselling language courses now with audio CDs! From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest ... see all copies from $17.84! new only from $17.84! \| SVS
7	Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota more books like this by William K Powers add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! new only from $36.50!
8	Fascinating Hieroglyphics: Discovering, Decoding & Understanding the Ancient Art more books like this by Christian Jacq add to wishlist A guide to understanding hieroglyphics, providing their historical background. The text examines the evolution of hieroglyphics, why it became a forgotten language, the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and how to learn to read inscriptions. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions
9	Lonely Planet Moroccan Arabic Phrasebook more books like this by Dan Bacon add to wishlist 86 per cent of visitors to Morocco are Europeans (WTO). see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.53! \| SVS
10	Somali-English/English-Somali Dictionary more books like this by Mohamud Korshel add to wishlist see all copies from $19.90! new only from $19.90! \| first editions
11 view cover	Teach Yourself Swahili (Book Only) more books like this by Joan Russell, Russell Joan add to wishlist Bestselling language courses! From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses see all copies from $4.93! new only from $5.85! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Simplified Swahili more books like this by P M Wilson add to wishlist see all copies from $19.00! new only from $24.37!
13 view cover	The Hausa Language: An Encyclopedic Reference Grammar more books like this by Paul Newman add to wishlist This book is a comprehensive grammar of Hausa, one of the largest and most important languages of Africa. Hausa is spoken by some 35 million people as a first language and approximately 15 million more as a second language. Paul Newman, a world authority on the Hausa language, draws on two centuries of Hausa linguistic scholarship to provide the ... see all copies from $9.75! new only from $12.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Egyptian hieroglyphs for everyone; an introduction to the writing of ancient Egypt more books like this by Henry Joseph Scott, Lenore Scott add to wishlist Describes the grammar, pronunciation, and writing of words and sentences in hieroglyphs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.12! \| SVS
15 view cover	Swahili: A Foundation for Speaking Reading and Writing more books like this by Thomas J Hinnebusch, Sarah M Mirza add to wishlist 30.00 see all copies from $15.24! new only from $23.66! \| SVS
16 view cover	A Grammar of Kham more books like this by David E Watters, R M W Dixon (Editor), Keren Rice (Editor) add to wishlist First published in 2002, this is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The language contains a number of grammatical systems that are of immediate relevance to current work on linguistic theory, including split ergativity, a ... see all copies from $30.00! new only from $39.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide - A Step-By-Step Approach to Learning Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs more books like this by Janice Kamrin add to wishlist This definitive educational tool provides a systematic, step-by-step approach to learning ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, complete with fun and increasingly challenging exercises and easy-to-reference sign and word lists. see all copies from $23.06! new only from $23.06!
18 view cover	Swahili for Starters: A Practical Introductory Course: Previously Known as "Twende!" more books like this by Joan Edith Mary Maw add to wishlist New in paperback and in an updated edition, Swahili for Starters: A Practical Introductory Course teaches Swahili in its social and cultural context, by modern and entertaining methods. An ideal beginners' text, it introduces the language in a natural manner, starting from real-life situations in dialogue form, many of them revealing attitudes and ... see all copies from $3.05! new only from $3.33! \| SVS
19 view cover	Beginner's Armenian more books like this by Hagop Andonian add to wishlist This book provides a guide to Armenian alphabet and pronunciation with 15 chapters explaining essentials of the modern Western Armenian Grammar, together with exercise exemplifying the rules. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $17.91!
20 view cover	Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginners Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs more books like this by Henry G Fischer add to wishlist This step-by-step guide for students of hieroglyphic paleography is supplemented by 165 line drawings and 200 signs. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $9.95! \| SVS
21 view cover	Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian more books like this by Raymond O Faulkner add to wishlist This concise dictionary of 'Middle Egyptian' - that phase of the Ancient Egyptian language which had the widest general application - contains 5400 carefully selected words most likely to be encountered by students and scholars in the course of their regular work on Egyptian texts. Each entry gives the most common hieroglyphic form of the word, ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $50.02! \| SVS
22 view cover	Afrikaans-English/English-Afrikaans Practical Dictionary more books like this by Jan Kromhout add to wishlist Afrikaans, previously one of the two national languages of South Africa, and now one of eleven, has over 6 million speakers. Updated for the new millennium, this compact dictionary includes comprehensive definitions and idiomatic expressions for its more than 14,000 entries. see all copies from $16.84! new only from $16.84! \| SVS
23 view cover	Swahili/English-English/Swahili Practical Dictionary more books like this by Nicholas Awde add to wishlist Swahili is one of the Bantu languages, which form the branch of the Niger-Congo family. Its vocabulary is basically Bantu, but many words are borrowed from Arabic. see all copies from $17.95! new only from $18.14! \| SVS
24 view cover	Mazoezi YA Kiswahili: Kitabu Cha Wanafunzi Wa Mwaka Wa Kwanza Swahili Exercises: A Workbook for First Year Students more books like this by Lioba J Moshi add to wishlist 47.50 see all copies from $29.17! new only from $52.18! \| SVS
25 view cover	Lonely Planet Ethiopian Amharic Phrasebook more books like this by Tilahun Kebebe add to wishlist The only Ethiopian phrasebook on the market. Contains a full guide to body language etiquette of the region. 1,400-word two-way dictionary helps travelers sound like locals. Pocket-sized for convenience see all copies from $5.98! new only from $5.98! \| SVS

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	How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-By-Step Guide to Teach Yourself by Mark Collier, Bill Manley, Richard Parkinson (Illustrator) see all from $4.86! new only from $17.88!
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