SOOMAALI BEEN MA MAAHMAAHDO ‘Somalis do not lie in proverbs’ is a bilingual (Somali-English) book aimed at Somali and non-Somali readers. In the Introduction G. Kapchits has answered several important questions: What is the nature of proverbs? How should be understood the truth of a proverb? What makes the proverbial stocks of all nations alike and what is the difference between them? Into how many types can Somali proverbs be divided and what are their distinctive features? The first section of the book contains 249 the most popular Somali proverbs and sayings received by a special experiment. The second part offers four thousand proverbs of different types. Read more…

Somali proverbs and sayings in Somali and Russian

with Russian equivalents. Compilation, translation,

introduction and commentary by G.L.Kapchits

Published by "URSS", Moscow, 2009.

Paperback, 280 pp.







Sentence particles in the Somali language and their usage in proverbs

(Semitica et Semitohamitica Berolinensia 4)

by G.L.Kapchits

Shaker Verlag

Aachen, 2005, ISBN 3-8322-4737-8

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