Kamba

Developed Resources

Keyboard Github Repo

Keyboard Wiki Page

Machine Translation Between Kamba and English

Kam → Eng Parallel corpus

External Resources

Dictionaries/Phrasebooks/Glossaries

• Mwau J. H. (2006). Kĩkamba dictionary : kĩkamba-english : kĩkamba-kĩkamba : english-kĩkamba (2nd ed.). Mwau J.H. https://www.worldcat.org/title/152581372
• Africa Inland Church Afrolit Society & Kenya Literacy Centre. (1970). A kikamba-english dictionary (3rd ed. unrevised). Reprinted by the Literacy Centre of Kenya for the Afrolit Association. https://www.worldcat.org/title/233927546
• Dalby. (2006). Dictionary of Languages : The Definitive Reference to More Than 400 Languages. (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. [1]
• Hinde, H. (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and kikuyu languages of East Africa. The Univ. Press.

Grammars

• Whiteley W. H. & Muli M. G. (1962). Practical introduction to kamba. Oxford University Press.[2]

Linguistic Papers

• 湯川恭敏. (1984). On the Nature of the Accent of Kamba Nouns. Senri Ethnological Studies, 15, 131–143. https://minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=3327&file_id=18&file_no=1
• Gakaara wa & Mbithi wa Makenzi P. (1989). Mwalimu wa ithyomo itatu vamwe = mwalimu wa lugha tatu pamoja = a teacher of three languages together. Gakaara Press.https://worldcat.org/title/775786431
• Kioko A. N. (1995). The kikamba multiple applicative : a problem for the lexical functional grammar analysis. South African Journal of African Languages 210–216. https://worldcat.org/title/5878275885
• Kioko A. N. (1997). The kikamba passive construction: a challenge for the government and binding based analyses. Monash University Linguistics Papers 25–39. https://worldcat.org/title/4808817065
• Kioko A. N. (1999). The syntactic status of the reciprocal and the reflexive affixes in bantu. South African Journal of African Languages 110–116. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.1999.10587387
• Kioko A. N. (2000). On determining the primary object in bantu. South African Journal of African Languages 225–233. https://doi.org/10.1080/02572117.2000.10587430
• Roberts-Kohno, Rosalind Ruth. 2000. Kikamba Phonology and Morphology. Ann Arbor: UMI. (Includes bibliographical references (S. 285-289), Ohio State University; xx+289pp.) http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488194825667386
• Roberts-Kohno R. (2014). Melodic tones in kikamba. Africana Linguistica V20 (2014): 367-384. https://worldcat.org/title/5730260800

Corpora

• Kikamba Bible translation https://www.bible.com/bible/2773/GEN.1.KAMBA
• Different translation of just Genesis: n.a. n.d. (1974). United Bible Societies. https://ia600300.us.archive.org/20/items/rosettaproject_kam_gen-1/gen.kamba.f.1.full_text.pdf
• Ĩvuku ya Mboya kwa andũ Onthe. Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Kamba. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1963. http://mammana.org/bcp/kamba1963/
• Kamba Storybooks with English Translation https://global-asp.github.io/storybooks-kenya/stories/kam/#

Our GitHub Corpora Repository

https://github.swarthmore.edu/Ling073-sp23/ling073-kam-corpus.git