A detailed phonetical and grammatical description of the Bench language, accompanied with a representative glossary.
Reddy 2009
Reddy, B. Ramakrishna
Manda-English Dictionary.
Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages.
Manda
gku-mnd
A mid-size vocabulary of the Manda language; this is currently the most detailed source on this little-studied language.
Reh 1985
Reh, Mechtchild
Die Krongo-Sprache (Nìinò Mó-Dì). Beschreibung, Texte, Wörterverzeichnis.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
Krongo
kad-kro
A detailed monograph treatment of the Krongo language: grammar, texts, and a comprehensive vocabulary. The best single available source on a Krongo-Kadugli language to this moment, and a default point of reference for any historical treatment of this group.
Reh 1994
Reh, Mechtchild
A Grammatical Sketch of Deiga.
In: Afrika und Übersee, Bd. 77, pp. 197-261.
Keiga
kad-kei
This grammatical sketch is the only published source of data on Keiga (Deiga) beyond Thilo Schadeberg's comparative wordlists, and is very useful as a "control source" due to containing plenty of independently collected illustrative data on Keiga basic lexicon.
Reid 2010
Reid, Tatiana
Aspects of phonetics, phonology and morphophonology of Thok Reel.
Ph.D. thesis, University of Edinburgh.
Thok Reel
wnl-rel
A detailed description of the phonetic and phonological aspects of Thok Reel, illustrated by a large number of lexical examples, but without an accompanying glossary.
Reinisch 1874
Reinisch, Leo
Die Barea-Sprache. Grammatik, Text und Wör\-terbuch. Nach den handschriftlichen Materialien von Werner Munzin\-ger Pa\-scha.
Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller.
Nara, Old
nar-nrm
Detailed description of Nara (Barea) grammar, accompanied by illustrative texts and a large Nara-German vocabulary. Based on field notes taken by Werner Munzinger in 1861-62 and subsequently reworked into monograph form by Leo Reinisch.
Ribeiro 2008
Ribeiro, Rosa Maria de Lima
Dicionário Arikapu / Português, registro de uma língua indígena amazônica. Master's thesis.
Guajará-Mirim, Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Campus de Guajará-Mirim.
Arikapú
ndh-ari
A comprehensive dictionary of Arikapú; each entry is accompanied by numerous examples.
Ribeiro 2008b
Ribeiro, Michela Araújo
Dicionário Djeoromitxí-Português. Registro da diveridade lingüística do povo Jabuti. Master's thesis.
Guajará-Mirim, Fundação Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Campus de Guajará-Mirim.
Djeoromitxí
ndh-dje
A comprehensive dictionary of Djeoromitxí; each entry is accompanied by numerous examples.
Ricci 1972
Ricci, Lanfranco
Materiali per la lingua Mekan.
In: Rassegna di Studi Etiopici, 25, pp. 90-455.
Me'en
srm-mee
A detailed description of Me'en grammar, based on the Tishena dialect and accompanied with a large dictionary that also includes potential etymological parallels in other Surmic languages and beyond. Most of the data actually come from a much earlier collection, accumulated by Fulvio Sudano in 1939-41; their phonetic and semantic quality are highly dubious in many instances.
Rilly 2009
Rilly, Claude
Le Méroïtique et sa famille linguistique.
Louvain-Paris-Dudley, MA: Peeters.
Ama; Afitti
nyi-ama; nyi-afi
Claude Rilly's monograph on Meroitic and its potential relationship with East Sudanic contains an etymological appendix for 200 items that includes material collected by the author himself, including wordlists for Nyimang (Ama) and Afitti (Dinik).
Comprehensive French-English and English-French dictionary.
Roettger 1989
Roettger, Larry; Roettger, Lisa.
A Dinka Dialect Survey.
In: Occasional Papers in the Study of Sudanese Languages, 6, pp. 1-65.
Dinka; Thok Reel
wnl-dnk; wnl-rel
A sociolinguistic and lexicostatistical study of the complex network of Dinka dialects. Includes 150-item wordlists collected for 20 subdialects of the 4 major Dinka dialects. However, phonetic and semantic accuracy of the data are questionable.
Saadiev 1994
Saadiev, Sh. M.
Kryts.
In: The Indigenous Languages of the Caucasus, vol. 4. Ed. by R. Smeets. Caravan Books, 1994. P. 407-446.
Kryts; Kryts, Alyk
lez-krp; lez-kra
A grammar sketch of Kryts, covering main dialects.
Unpublished manuscript. All data have been provided courtesy of Bonny Sands.
Sands, Maddieson & Ladefoged 1996
Sands, Bonny; Maddieson, Ian; Ladefoged, Peter
The Phonetic Structures of Hadza.
In: Studies in African Linguistics, 25.2, pp. 171-204.
Hadza
hdz-hdz
One of the most accurate and reliable descriptions of the phonetics of Hadza to date, accompanied by a 232-item wordlist recorded from seven Hadza informants in August 1991.
Sands Ms.
Sands, Bonny
Hadzabe vocabulary.
Ms.
Hadza
hdz-hdz
Typed manuscript, containing a large wordlist elicited by B. Sands in 1991/1992. Phonetic notation and semantic accuracy are generally of a very high quality, except that the data do not contain tonal notation.
Sapir & Swadesh 1960
Sapir, Edward; Swadesh, Morris
Yana Dictionary. Ed. by Mary R. Haas.
University of California Publications in Linguistics, Volume 22. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Yana, Northern; Yana, Central; Yahi
yan-nya; yan-cya; yan-yah
A dictionary compiled by Morris Swadesh on the basis of Edward Sapir’s lexical files. Includes data from Northern Yana, Central Yana and Yahi, collected by Sapir in the course of his fieldwork in the first two decades of the XXth century.
Saxon & Siemens 1996
Saxon, Leslie; Siemens, Mary
Tɫı̨chǫ Yatiì Enı̨htɫ’è: A Dogrib Dictionary.
Rae-Edzo, N.W.T.: Dogrib Divisional Board of Education.
Dogrib
pca-dgr
An educational dictionary of the Dogrib language. Cf. the revised and enlarged on-line version [Saxon & Siemens n.d.].
Saxon & Siemens n. d.
Saxon, Leslie; Siemens, Mary
Tɫı̨chǫ Yatiì Multimedia Dictionary.
Online database, at: http://tlicho.ling.uvic.ca.
Dogrib
pca-dgr
Revised and enlarged version of [Saxon & Siemens 1996]. Accessed May 2013.
Schadeberg 1981a
Schadeberg, Thilo C.
A Survey of Kordofanian. Volume One: The Heiban Group.
A brief survey of the Heiban languages of Kordofan, based on the author's own fieldwork. Includes brief descriptions of the phonetic inventories and nominal grammar (noun class systems, pronouns, etc.) of ten different languages, as well as 200-item wordlists, a lexicostatistical classification, and a first attempt at the lexical reconstruction of Proto-Heiban.
