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 used in this book may be peculiar to the M achinga Yao, from whom I have obtained them, the grammar is that of the language common to all Yaos.With regard to the arrangement of the subject matter, I have covered as much ground as is feasible in the first few chapt in order to enable the student to begin speaking the language as soon as possible. This has inevitably resulted in discontinuity, but I venture to hope that the advantages of this arrange ment will be found to outweigh its drawbacks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.