FSI. Kirundi Basic Course. Student Text

Publisher/Author: Foreign Service Institute
Year: 1965
Pages: 589Kirundi, together with its companion language, Kinyarwanda, is one of the most important of Bantu languages. This book is intended to give the student a start in Kirundi, providing him with dialogues that relate to some of the first situations in which he is likely to use the language, as well as with systematic practice in all major points of grammar.
The present volume is one of a series of short Basic Courses in selected African languages, prepared by the Foreign Service Institute, under an agreement with the Office of Education, Department of Health, Education and Welfare, under provisions of the National Defense Education Act.
The analysis on which this course is based is contained in A. E. Meeussen*s Essai de Grammaire Rundi. Dictionaries by F. M. Rodegem and Elizabeth E. Cox were also of great value. Part of the manuscript was checked at Michigan State University by Charles Kraft, David McClure and D. Kamatari. The contributions of these scholars are gratefully acknowledged.
Kirundi Basic Course is the work of many colaborators. Raymond Setukuru, Terence Nsanze and Daniel Nicimpaye provided the dialogues and other texts, as well as the exercise material. Setukuru also provided data for use in the construction of notes on sounds and grammar, checked the entire manuscript, and voiced the tape recordings which accompany the course. The manuscript was also checked by Gregoire Ndinze.
General organizing, editing and the preparation of notes were the responsibility of Earl W. Stevick. The tape recordings were prepared in the Language Laboratory of the Foreign Service Institute, under the direction of Gabriel Cordova.