Bemba (M42)

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(i) Bemba/English vocabulary, 55p typescript. (ii) Bemba/English vocabulary notes, 27p manuscript. (iii) English/Bemba Index, showing tone group, 32p typescript (2 copies, one with extensive pencilled annotation). (iv) English/Bemba Index, expanded version, with explanatory notes, 30p typescript. (v) Vocabulary of one hundred and fifty new and foreign words into Cibemba as used in the NRR by Stephen Mpashi, in Bemba, with explanations in Bemba, and English translation, 9p manuscript. (vi) Earlier manuscript containing 72 items from the above vocabulary list, with collector's note, 3p manuscript. (vii) Typed Bemba verbs with hand written English gloss, 4p. (viii) Bemba/English word lists, under generic category, 9p typescript (incomplete). (ix) Notebook of Bemba nouns under generic category, c. 100p manuscript, with Swahili noun class notes and vocabulary at the back.

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