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Louise Pirouet, “The Legacy of Johann Ludwig Krapf,” Henry Martyn Centre, www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/pages/published-papers.php? searchresult=1&sstring=krapf accessed May 5, 2010.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Krapf himself uses both terms to refer to the language, and both are now recognized in Standard English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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SAFARI 1. For a brief account of Krapf as “the first Protestant missionary to East Africa,” see M.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In 1843 an obsessive Lutheran missionary, Johann Ludwig Krapf, a native of übingen, Germany, set out from his post in Abyssinia for the coast of East Africa.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Krapf himself uses both terms to refer to the language, and both are now recognized in Standard English.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Unlike Dr. Livingstone, however, Krapf never gave up his missionary work to become a full-time explorer.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In the late nineteenth century, J. L. Krapf noted: South-East African languages have a tendency to forming separate families, or classes of nouns, which govern the whole grammatical edifice; therefore the noun has the precedence, and all the other parts of speech are, as it were, its dependents, or camp-followers.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Louise Pirouet, “The Legacy of Johann Ludwig Krapf,” Henry Martyn Centre, www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/pages/published-papers.php? searchresult=1&sstring=krapf accessed May 5, 2010.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Reaching the islands of Lamu and Zanzibar, Krapf settled in Mombasa and lived among the Swahili.xvii He might have thought of himself being on safari as he journeyed to Africa by boat, but he had yet to encounter the Bantu term for traveling and sailing.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In 1843 an obsessive Lutheran missionary, Johann Ludwig Krapf, a native of übingen, Germany, set out from his post in Abyssinia for the coast of East Africa.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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