Schuh R.G. (ed.) Bole-English-Hausa dictionary

2nd ed. — Potiskum: Ajami Press; Yobe Languages Research Project, 2009. — XIII, 171 p.Authors: Alhaji Maina Gimba, Malam Baba Ali, Madu Bah.The First edition was published in 2004 by the Yobe Languages research project. This new edition has been expanded by nearly 1000 items, grammatical information and examples of use have been added to entries, and many corrections, both typographical and substantive, have been made. Like the First edition, this edition is based on the variety of Bole spoken in Fika, the traditional location of the court of the Moi Pikka, the Emir of Fika (Sarkin Fika).
Despite the changes and expansions to the original Bole dictionary mentioned in the first paragraph, this Second edition should still be viewed as a work in progress.Bole (also known as Bolanchi, Ampika, Borpika, Bolewa, Bolawa) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Nigeria. Dialects include Bara and Fika. This edition is based on the variety of Bole spoken in Fika, the traditional location of the court of the Moi Pikka, the Emir of Fika (Sarkin Fika).Along with Hausa, Bole is a member of the West Branch of Chadic, but Bole and Hausa are not particularly closely related. The languages share a number typological features (similar consonant inventories, a two-tone system with downdrift, grammatical gender — though this has nearly disappeared as an active system in Bole, and similarities in sentence and phrasal word order), but they probably do not share more than 30% cognates in basic vocabulary.