After 104 years of silence, the Ga language is in the news again. Two Dunster House tutors, Horace G. Lunt, chairman of the Department of Slavie Languages and Literature, and Robert Wall, instructor in Education, will study Ga, the national language of Ghana, in a private seminar this term.
The last study of the language was made in 1853 by the Rev. J. Zimmerman, a German missionary to the Gold Coast. It was Zimmerman who prepared the first translation of the Bible into Ga.
Among the more cryptic of these epigrams are the following: "A hyena does not drive a cow," and "A spider does not sit that people may teach it to speak through the nose."
Lunt and Wall are not kidding about the seminar, however. They intend to conduct a rigorous linguistic analysis of Ga, its phonology, morphology, and syntax.
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