JOHANNES REBMANN AND THE START OF WRITTEN CHICHEWA AND ITS LEXICOGRAPHY
You may appreciate that written Chichewa or Cinyanja has been a very important vehicle for the spreading of the Word of God in Central Africa. The language was first reduced to writing appr. 1850 in Mombasa, by the German missionary Johannes Rebmann, and by Salimini, who was a liberated slave from Central Malawi, where he was captured by Swahili-Arab slave traders, and dragged to present day Kenya. Read my biography of Rebmann, including the story of his language work in cooperation with Salimini. Rebmann also contributed a lot to the lexicography of other languages, especially Kiswahili
Johannes Rebmann: A Servant of God in Africa Before the Rise of Western Colonialism. Second edition, May 2018, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft (VKW) in Bonn and by Wipf & Stock, in Eugene, Oregon, USA?.?
https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/birth-written-chichewa-steven-paas/?trackingId=orE1DeqDaWvDKomdRB7kMw%3D%3D In German: https://vkwonline.com/Johannes-Rebmann_1
For Book Reviews, Rebmann Lectures and a brief Rebmann biography, see our Chichewa Dictionary site: https://www.chichewadictionary.org/johannes-rebmann/rebmann-biography
Publisher: Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft, Bonn, Germany https://vkwonline.com/Johannes-Rebmann
Co-Publisher: Wipf & Stock, Eugene, USA https://wipfandstock.com/search-results/?keyword=rebmann
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