English speakers visiting South Africa could soon find this easier after the publication of an English-Zulu dictionary – believed to be the first of its kind for more than 40 years.
Oxford University Press Southern Africa, notes the Guardian, also hopes that the book will help the 2.8m school pupils who study Zulu, South Africa’s most common African language.
“To our knowledge the last substantial bilingual Zulu dictionary was published more than four decades ago. A great deal has changed since then – in the world around us, the language we use to talk about it, as well as in the way we now make dictionaries.”
Megan Hall, publisher’s manager for dictionaries
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