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Excerpt from A Yao GrammarThe Y ao tribe is, at the present day, so scattered throughout East Central Africa, that the language is inevitably becoming broken up into dialects. I have been mostly associated with the Machinga Yao settled in Nyasaland, but judging by the speech of individuals of other branches of the tribe whom I have met, the dialects differ rather in vocabulary and idiom than in grammar. In other words, though some expressions ...

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Excerpt from A Yao Grammar Since the first edition of this hook was published I have had the opportunity of visiting Yaoland proper, in Portuguese East Africa and the country north of the Rovuma. I have thus been enabled to study more thoroughly the language as it is spoken by the Amasaninga and Amangoche Yaos, as a result the Grammar has been thoroughly revised and some important constructions added. The Vocabulary has been enlarged and now...