George Percival Bargery

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George Percival Bargery (1876 - 1966) a missionary and linguist from Exeter, UK, published a Hausa-English Dictionary in 1934 that remains widely referenced and is available in several online versions. According to the School of Oriental and African Studies Library in London, where Bargery's collected papers are on deposit, his Hausa-English dictionary contained "the first tonal analysis of the Hausa language".^[1]

[edit] Publications

• Bargery, George Percival (1934). A Hausa-English Dictionary and English-Hausa Vocabulary. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 1844531147. 

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• On-line Bargery Hausa-English Dictionary
• The Online Bargery's Hausa-English Dictionary
• Archives in London and the M25 Area