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Ashanti Proverbs, the Primitive Ethics of a Savage People by Rattray Robert Sutherland, Christaller Johann Gottlieb. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1916. — 204 p. In the year 1879, the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society published a book of these Proverbs. This work, which was edited by the late J. G. Christaller, contained some 13,600 proverbs in use among the negroes of the Gold Coast, speaking the Ashanti and Fante language. The collection, to use the words of the compiler, consisted of proverbs, taken down by the missionaries themselves from the oral communications of certain elders or of other old or younger people, or were written by native assistants who increased their previous knowledge by learning from experienced countrymen. The book in question is entirely in the vernacular. It does not contain any translation, notes or other explanatory matter, though had the Editor (the Rev. J. G. Christaller) lived he would have added a translation and explanation to the proverbs.

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Author
Rattray Robert Sutherland, Christaller Johann Gottlieb.
Language
AF
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Language

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