Pioocku Thuongjang: The Elementary Modern Standard Dinka

About the Book

Piööcku Thuɔŋjäŋ presents a comprehensive foundation course for beginning students of written and spoken Modern Standard Dinka (MSD), providing an essential grounding for successful written communication with speakers of the Dinka Language. This book centers on imparting and consolidating a wide range of vocabularies, accurate and active command of pronunciation, and basic writings to enable the learner step by step to understand written and spoken texts, to spell and write Dinka vocabulary independently and, moreover, to construct simple sentences with the wide range of vocabulary acquired. A variety of different vocabularies and preparatory sentences together with appropriate exercises and drills have been included in the book in addition to Alooŋke Thuɔŋjäŋ to achieve these objectives.

About the Author

Makwei Mabioor Deng, a 2008 recipient of Banaa Program’s scholarship, is a Sudanese student studying at George Washington University, Washongton D.C, USA.