A Khoekhoegowab dictionary cover

A Khoekhoegowab dictionary

by Wilfrid H. G. Haacke

>This bilingual dictionary of Khoekhoegowab (Nama/Damara), a Central Khoesaan language today confined almost entirely to Namibia, aims to document extensively the lexicon of this endangered language. The book contains over 24 500 Khoekhoegowab entries, including some 2 700 examples of usage. - back cover

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
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  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
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  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?