This page contains the better developed Luyia dictionaries created as part of the Luyia Dictionary Project (currently only Bukusu and Wanga) along with digitized version of Appleby's 1943 Luluhya-English Vocabulary and the Friends Africa Mission Press 1940 Luragoli-English Vocabulary and Ndani & Ndani's 2005 monolingual Logoori dictionary Amang'ana go Lulimi lwo Lulogooli. Additional materials, still in handwritten format, are available here.
L. L. Appleby's 1943 "Luluhya-English Vocabulary", digitized by Michael Marlo, with the assistance of Sarah Crane, Namira Islam, and Callie Masten, undergraduate students at the University of Michigan in 2006.
Bukusu-English dictionary, approximately 6200 words, compiled and edited with Adrian Sifuna and Aggrey Wasike. Draft of 09/01/2008 with updated tonal transcriptions by Aggrey Wasike.
"Luragoli-English Vocabulary", published in 1940 by Friends Mission Africa Press. Scanned to PDF format by Michael Marlo in 2009. The PDF is searchable.
Unedited Idakho wordlist with comparative forms from Appleby 1943 and Wanga. Two sets of Idakho data as provided by two different speakers of the language. Typed by Alfred Anangwe, bot yet edited by Michael Marlo or a native speaker.
Comparative wordlist of Kisa, Tsotso, Wanga, and Appleby 1943. Typed by Alfred Anangwe and lightly edited by Michael Marlo. No editing yet by native speakers.
Unedited wordlist of Tura with comparative forms from Appleby 1943 and Wanga. Typed by Alfred Anangwe but not yet edited by Michael Marlo or a native speaker. Virtually all of the data need to be re-checked because after the Appleby 1943 entry "huchirisia", the translator failed to positively confirm that the Appleby 1943 form and the Tura forms are identical.
Preliminary draft (updated formatting 09/01/2008) of Wanga-English dictionary of approximately 4000 words, compiled with Alfred Anangwe. This draft lacks marking of tone and vowel length.
